Background is inherited
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http: //www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http: //www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"xml: lang="en"lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
body,p {
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000;
}
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #fff;
}
p {
font-size: 0.7em;
line-height: 1.4em;
}
#MainText {
padding: 10px;
margin: 5px;
background-color: #ccc;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="MainText">
<p>this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. .</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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