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.

Answer 2

Not all browsers like min-height, try something like this to catch all browsers.

  min-height:100%;
  height:auto !important;
  height:100%;