diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f42dd0d3..3215198a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
 - Malformed UTF-8 and non-SGML character detection and cleaning implemented
 - API documentation completed
 - Shorthand CSS properties implemented: font, border
+- A limited version of CSS background implemented, only color is supported
 - Basic color keywords translated into hexadecimal values
-- Table CSS properties implementeds
+- Table CSS properties implemented
 
 1.0.0beta, released 2006-08-16
 - First public release, most functionality implemented. Notable omissions are:
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 74d5d7f4..370d089a 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -6,12 +6,10 @@ Ongoing
  - Plugins for major CMSes (very tricky issue)
 
 1.0 release
- - Limited shorthand CSS attributes
-    - background
-    - list-style
- - Revise (HTML|CSS)Definition and Config relationship (groundwork for 2.0)
+ - Limited list-style shorthand CSS support
  - Lossy alternate character encoding support (characters not in the encoding
    will get silently dropped).
+ - Revise (HTML|CSS)Definition and Config relationship (groundwork for 2.0)
 
 1.1 release
  - Directive documentation generation
@@ -25,6 +23,8 @@ Ongoing
 
 1.3 release
  - Make URI validation routines tighter (especially mailto)
+ - More extensive URI filtering schemes
+ - Allow for background-image and list-style-image (see above)
  - Distinguish between different types of URIs, for instance, a mailto URI
    in IMG SRC is nonsensical
 
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php
index e8bf00f4..97c9e0a0 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php
@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ class HTMLPurifier_CSSDefinition
             array('capitalize', 'uppercase', 'lowercase', 'none'), false);
         $this->info['color'] = new HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_Color();
         
+        // technically speaking, this one should get its own validator, but
+        // since we don't support background images, it effectively is
+        // equivalent to color.  The only trouble is that if the author
+        // specifies an image and a color, they'll both end up getting dropped,
+        // even though we ought to implement it and just discard the image
+        // info.  This will be fixed in a later version (see TODO) when
+        // better URI filtering is implemented.
+        $this->info['background'] = 
+        
         $border_color = 
         $this->info['border-top-color'] = 
         $this->info['border-bottom-color'] = 
diff --git a/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php b/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php
index d4c0e077..0b3b659b 100644
--- a/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php
+++ b/tests/HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/CSSTest.php
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ 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('color:#F00;');
         $this->assertDef('border-top-color:#F00;');
         $this->assertDef('border-color:#F00 #FF0;');