Issue with background color and Google Chrome

Sometimes I get a broken background in Chrome. I do not get this error with any other browser.

This is the simple CSS line responsible for the background color of body:

body 
{
   background: black;
   color: white;
   font-family: Chaparral Pro, lucida grande, verdana, sans-serif;
}

This is exactly how I get this problem. I click a link included in an Gmail's email and I get something wrong (no background). I then refresh the page and the background is colored completely.

How do fix this problem?

Never heard of it. Try:

html, body {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
  font-family: ...;
}

Ok guys, I found a solution, . It's not great but does the trick with no side effects.

The HTML:

<span id="chromeFix"></span> 

(put this below the body tags)

The CSS:

#chromeFix { display: block; position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 100%; top: 0px; left: 0px; }

What this does to solve the issue:

It forces Chrome to think the page's content is 100% when it's not - this stops the body 'appearing' the size of the content and resolves the missing background bug. This is basically doing what height: 100% does when applied to the body or html but you don't get the side effect of having your backgrounds cut off when scrolling (past 100% page height) like you do with a 100% height on those elements.

I can sleep now =]