html - min-height does not work with body

Question

Does min-height not work on body/html?

body, html
{
    min-height:100%;
}

Accomplishes absolutely nothing (firebug reports the body,html tags height does not change at all)

Answer 1

First, declare a doctype so you're in standards if you haven't already.

Now, the body can only be as high as the containing html, so you need to set HTML tag to 100% height, and body to min-height 100%. This works for me on Firefox.

html {height:100%} 
body {min-height:100%}