CSS body element width not working

Question

HTML:

    
Some content

CSS:

body {
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 470px;
    back         


        

Answer 1

Your CSS is applying those property on the whole page.

Maybe you were looking for this:

p { //body changed to p
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 470px;
    background-color: cyan;
}

Here is the updated JSFiddle