CSS Help, Please

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

So, I was playing with CSS on a web page. If I use the following
style.css file, I don't get the body settings I want (as viewed
in Mozilla 1.2.1):

<style type="text/css">
  body {
    color: black; 
    background-image:url(small-grid.gif);
    margin-left: 10%; 
    margin-right: 10%; 
  }
</style>

But, if I use the following, the body settings *do* work (again, as
viewed in Mozilla 1.2.1):

<style type="text/css">
  body { ; } 
  body {
    color: black; 
    background-image:url(small-grid.gif);
    margin-left: 10%; 
    margin-right: 10%; 
  }
</style>

The browser appears to ignore the first body statement, so using
what amounts to an empty or null body statement works around the bug.
Is this a Mozilla misfeature or something stupendously simple that I
am overlooking?

Thanks,

Kurt
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