diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 476d7d37..b08c431e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,13 +12,12 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
 1.4.0, unknown release date
 ! Implemented list-style-image, URIs now allowed in list-style
 ! Implemented background-image, background-repeat, background-attachment
-  and background-position CSS properties. Background shorthand property is
-  currently equivalent to background-image and does not support the
-  new properties.
+  and background-position CSS properties. Shorthand property background
+  supports all of these properties.
 ! Configuration documentation looks nicer
-! Added smoketest 'all.php', which loads all other smoketests via frames
 ! Added %Core.EscapeNonASCIICharacters to workaround loss of Unicode
   characters while %Core.Encoding is set to a non-UTF-8 encoding.
+. Added smoketest 'all.php', which loads all other smoketests via frames
 . Implemented AttrDef_CSSURI for url(http://google.com) style declarations
 . Added convenient single test selector form on test runner
 
diff --git a/docs/dev-progress.html b/docs/dev-progress.html
index 73dcd36e..87ac704a 100644
--- a/docs/dev-progress.html
+++ b/docs/dev-progress.html
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ thead th {text-align:left;padding:0.1em;background-color:#EEE;}
 <tbody>
 <tr><th colspan="2">Standard</th></tr>
 <tr class="css1 impl-yes"><td>background-color</td><td>COMPOSITE(&lt;color&gt;, transparent)</td></tr>
-<tr class="css1 impl-partial"><td>background</td><td>SHORTHAND, currently alias for background-color</td></tr>
+<tr class="css1 impl-yes"><td>background</td><td>SHORTHAND, currently alias for background-color</td></tr>
 <tr class="css1 impl-yes"><td>border</td><td>SHORTHAND, MULTIPLE</td></tr>
 <tr class="css1 impl-yes"><td>border-color</td><td>MULTIPLE</td></tr>
 <tr class="css1 impl-yes"><td>border-style</td><td>MULTIPLE</td></tr>
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Mozilla on inside and needs -moz-outline, no IE support.</td></tr>
 
 <tbody>
 <tr><th colspan="3">CSS</th></tr>
-<tr class="impl-yes"><td>style</td><td>All</td><td>Not all properties may be implemented, parser is good though.</td></tr>
+<tr class="impl-yes"><td>style</td><td>All</td><td>Parser is reasonably functional. Status here doesn't count individual properties.</td></tr>
 </tbody>
 
 <tbody>
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Background.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Background.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1db3f88d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Background.php
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+<?php
+
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef.php';
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php';
+
+/**
+ * Validates shorthand CSS property background.
+ * @warning Does not support url tokens that have internal spaces.
+ */
+class HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Background extends HTMLPurifier_AttrDef
+{
+    
+    /**
+     * Local copy of component validators.
+     * @note See HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Font::$info for a similar impl.
+     */
+    var $info;
+    
+    function HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Background($config) {
+        $def = $config->getCSSDefinition();
+        $this->info['background-color'] = $def->info['background-color'];
+        $this->info['background-image'] = $def->info['background-image'];
+        $this->info['background-repeat'] = $def->info['background-repeat'];
+        $this->info['background-attachment'] = $def->info['background-attachment'];
+        $this->info['background-position'] = $def->info['background-position'];
+    }
+    
+    function validate($string, $config, &$context) {
+        
+        // regular pre-processing
+        $string = $this->parseCDATA($string);
+        if ($string === '') return false;
+        
+        // assumes URI doesn't have spaces in it
+        $bits = explode(' ', strtolower($string)); // bits to process
+        
+        $caught = array();
+        $caught['color']    = false;
+        $caught['image']    = false;
+        $caught['repeat']   = false;
+        $caught['attachment'] = false;
+        $caught['position'] = false;
+        
+        $i = 0; // number of catches
+        $none = false;
+        
+        foreach ($bits as $bit) {
+            if ($bit === '') continue;
+            foreach ($caught as $key => $status) {
+                if ($key != 'position') {
+                    if ($status !== false) continue;
+                    $r = $this->info['background-' . $key]->validate($bit, $config, $context);
+                } else {
+                    $r = $bit;
+                }
+                if ($r === false) continue;
+                if ($key == 'position') {
+                    if ($caught[$key] === false) $caught[$key] = '';
+                    $caught[$key] .= $r . ' ';
+                } else {
+                    $caught[$key] = $r;
+                }
+                $i++;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        if (!$i) return false;
+        if ($caught['position'] !== false) {
+            $caught['position'] = $this->info['background-position']->
+                validate($caught['position'], $config, $context);
+        }
+        
+        $ret = array();
+        foreach ($caught as $value) {
+            if ($value === false) continue;
+            $ret[] = $value;
+        }
+        
+        if (empty($ret)) return false;
+        return implode(' ', $ret);
+        
+    }
+    
+}
+
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/ListStyle.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/ListStyle.php
index b866798c..b09ee354 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/ListStyle.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/ListStyle.php
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_ListStyle extends HTMLPurifier_AttrDef
                 }
                 $caught[$key] = $r;
                 $i++;
+                break;
             }
         }
         
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php
index cb97b6c3..0bbe8af5 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Font.php';
 require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Border.php';
 require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/ListStyle.php';
 require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSURI.php';
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/BackgroundPosition.php';
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Background.php';
 
 /**
  * Defines allowed CSS attributes and what their values are.
@@ -81,9 +83,6 @@ class HTMLPurifier_CSSDefinition
         );
         $this->info['background-position'] = new HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_BackgroundPosition();
         
-        // pending its own validator as a shorthand
-        $this->info['background'] = 
-        
         $border_color = 
         $this->info['border-top-color'] = 
         $this->info['border-bottom-color'] = 
@@ -94,6 +93,8 @@ class HTMLPurifier_CSSDefinition
             new HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Color()
         ));
         
+        $this->info['background'] = new HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Background($config);
+        
         $this->info['border-color'] = new HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Multiple($border_color);
         
         $border_width = 
diff --git a/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/BackgroundTest.php b/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/BackgroundTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69b3c1ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/BackgroundTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?php
+
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDefHarness.php';
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Background.php';
+
+class HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_BackgroundTest extends HTMLPurifier_AttrDefHarness
+{
+    
+    function test() {
+        
+        $this->def = new HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Background(HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault());
+        
+        $valid = '#333 url(chess.png) repeat fixed 50% top';
+        $this->assertDef($valid);
+        $this->assertDef('url("chess.png") #333 50% top repeat fixed', $valid);
+        
+    }
+    
+}
+
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php b/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php
index e63153d0..9371f788 100644
--- a/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php
+++ b/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_CSSTest extends HTMLPurifier_AttrDefHarness
         $this->assertDef('text-transform:capitalize;');
         $this->assertDef('background-color:rgb(0,0,255);');
         $this->assertDef('background-color:transparent;');
-        $this->assertDef('background:#FF9;');
+        $this->assertDef('background:#333 url(chess.png) repeat fixed 50% top;');
         $this->assertDef('color:#F00;');
         $this->assertDef('border-top-color:#F00;');
         $this->assertDef('border-color:#F00 #FF0;');
diff --git a/tests/test_files.php b/tests/test_files.php
index 378458f5..ab83ec47 100644
--- a/tests/test_files.php
+++ b/tests/test_files.php
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ $test_files[] = 'AttrDef/ListStyleTest.php';
 $test_files[] = 'AttrDef/Email/SimpleCheckTest.php';
 $test_files[] = 'AttrDef/CSSURITest.php';
 $test_files[] = 'AttrDef/BackgroundPositionTest.php';
+$test_files[] = 'AttrDef/BackgroundTest.php';
 $test_files[] = 'IDAccumulatorTest.php';
 $test_files[] = 'TagTransformTest.php';
 $test_files[] = 'AttrTransform/LangTest.php';