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

Try setting borders for the html element. The body element is only as high as it needs to but, as far as I remember, the html element takes the whole space (it's where you should set your background, too).

I'm not sure how borders look, I usually only set backgrounds.