Help ! Cant get entire background black !! How to use css properly..

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Hey guys I am creating a web site using css and html. I put in 3 seperate spacings into my site all with black backgrounds. The problem is that It looks stupid because it is black spacings but then when the writing ends, its white where the table doesent fill in. I tried using body
{background-color: color_code;} but to no avail.Why cant I get the rest of the page black? I am not sure what to do. The web site is <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://russell.customcoverproductions.com/index2.html">http://russell.customcoverproductions.com/index2.html</a><!-- m -->
Help is much appreciated,
RussellShould be able to assign background-color to body. However, with all these markup errors: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Frussell.customcoverproductions.com%2Findex2.html">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... ndex2.html</a><!-- m --> and thus the css validator's inablility to validate the css: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://russell.customcoverproductions.com/index2.html">http://russell.customcoverproductions.com/index2.html</a><!-- m --> there's no telling how confused the browser is getting.Hey ! Thanks for the reply. Wow that is alot of errors. I still cannot assign background color to body. It just stays white. I dun understand. Thanks for the validation though.

thanks,
RUssellHey
Nevermind I just did it. Seems like I was forgeting the # before the number code. I really need to fix those errors. What did you think of the site overall though? Looks good? Its my first one.

thanks,
Russell