We all know the overt benefits of using CSS by now – being able to centrally locate all of our presentation, the ability to replicate design changes instantly over an entire website, and so on. But not everyone is sold on such details. These days, a lot of people are more interested in SEO (Search Engine Optimization, or making your pages look good in search engines) than anything else. So what happens if you have a client or an employer whose mantra is more along the lines of, “SEO at any cost, CSS be damned”?

Problem for today, had a background which was applied on body which meant that the background titled all the way to the length of the document. The page had a footer which would appear where the content would end, which would make the background appear below the footer and make it look like something had gone wrong there.