Internet Explorer doesn't recognise the 'html' css background image tag?

Question

I was basically wondering if there was a work around to this? I was redesigning my old mans plumbing website, and took a few of the ideas from this website http://visitmix.c

Answer 1

I know this question has been answered and is older, but I wanted to share my solution in case someone else comes across this. I was having the same problems when I used a background image on my tag. The solution was to have the correct DOCTYPE. Below is the one I used:

I also added @charset "utf-8"; to the top of my style sheet.

The way I formatted my background attribute is also different than how you have yours, but I do not know if that makes a difference.

    html {
           background: url("../images/html_bg.jpg") #000 repeat-x;
    }

I was able to have both a and background image that worked in Firefox and IE.