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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

And I dont know where you get the idea that backgrounds for all HTML pages are white. As per the actual HTML spec the background color defaults to transparent not white.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...ckground-color

See the initial value on that page.

Interesting, because every browser I have defaults to white (or if it's transparent, it's on a white window, regardless of desktop theme). Years ago Netscape used to be grey by default (or transparent on a grey window, whatever).