Here I posted a demo http://jsfiddle.net/LxYMv/1/.
As you can see <body> gets margin-top:10px from the top div, and therefor <html>'s black background leaks out. Does it mean that I can't give the top div a positive margin-top?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style>
html{color:#000;background:#FFF}body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,button,textarea,select,p,blockquote,th,td{margin:0;padding:0}table{border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0}fieldset,img{border:0}address,button,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,input,optgroup,option,select,strong,textarea,th,var{font:inherit}del,ins{text-decoration:none}li{list-style:none}caption,th{text-align:left}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{font-size:100%;font-weight:normal}q:before,q:after{content:''}abbr,acronym{border:0;font-variant:normal}sup{vertical-align:baseline}sub{vertical-align:baseline}legend{color:#000}
html{background:black}
body{background:white}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="margin-top:10px;background:red;height:100px">Here the top div begins</div>
<div style="height:800px">A long long div</div>
</body>
</html>
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