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Adding doctype html breaks layout height

Asked 2013-06-26T19:00:30.837
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I was developing a page recently, and after finding that everything worked properly noticed that I hadn't added the <!doctype html> tag at the top. Upon adding it, the layout ignored the height.

I stripped it down to the most basic layout to see what was wrong and the problem persists. Is what I'm doing inconsistent with HTML5?

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You have to set the height of your tag

body, html {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
}
answered 2013-06-26T19:05:12.380

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