css on html, not body

[Charisma Bypass]

A conundrum...

I am trying to set a image on the html in the css, not the body.

I'm attampting to make some "faux" rows using images.  One needs to be at the top, easy, set css on the background...
And one needs to be connected to the bottom.

So, I did this:

Code:

body {
  color: #000000;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  background: url(images/tpl/headbg.gif) repeat-x top transparent;
}

and this:

Code:

html{
    background: url(images/tpl/botbg.gif) repeat-x bottom #EACFA8;
}

It doesn't want to show itself.  Image is definitely there, and the EACFA8 colour shows, so it should all be OK...

Any ideas?  TIA.

[Mr Anderson]

Is it collapsing? Try giving it a height.

[Charisma Bypass]

Cheers Hurri.

Never got to the bottom of it, time was of the essence so I just dumped the faux row idea.

Will make more invesigations at some point and post my findings.