Can someone please tell me what is wrong with this?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" />
</head>
<title></title>
<body>
This is <em>white</em> text on a<strong> black</strong> background
</body>
</html>
body {
background; #000000;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
It's gotta be something simple that I'm overlooking. I'm not a COMPLETE noob to CSS but I'm not advanced either. It's not showing up in any browser that I use. I just get a blank white page.