Border around 100% body height and width (HTML 4.01 Strict)

Question

Okay, this is driving me crazy right now.

I want to have a border around my document. It should be nicely going around the whole window/viewport. So I define:

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Answer 1

Here's a simple solution using only the html and body elements (no need for nested divs). It takes advantage of the special behaviour of the HTML element (it can't have an outer border so it must shrink to display it).