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Barebones HTML demo - styling the body without a <body> tag
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barebones.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Barebones HTML Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
<p>If you can see this as white text on a black background, then your browser can successfully parse HTML documents without <em>html</em>, <em>head</em> or <em>body</em> tags, and can apply basic styles to a <em>body</em> tag that doesn't actually exist in the source code.</p>
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style.css
body { background-color: black; }
p { color: white; }
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This is a very basic demo in response to:
https://twitter.com/seb_ly/status/778565978519138304
(which links to:
https://twitter.com/seb_ly/status/778565978519138304)
(which links to:
https://twitter.com/peterc/status/778561848450904064)

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