I gave the table a background color, but its still coming up as white

http://www.begin-weight-loss.com/index.html

Over on the left, if you go down below "food and weight loss" you might see a google ad, or a blank space. But to the left of that, there is a white space with a hyphen in it. That hyphen is in a table of its own. I set the bg color to F2F2FF, but no matter what I do, it comes up as white.

I know its just one little tiny thing, and may not seem worth any fuss, but I plan on doing the same thing elsewhere in the site, so if its not working i want to figure out why.

 

You have omitted the "#" for the colour value.

<td width="9" rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="F2F2FF"><strong>-</strong></td>

needs to be

<td width="9" rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#F2F2FF"><strong>-</strong></td>

 

Try:

<td width="9" rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#F2F2FF"><strong>-</strong></td>

HTML:

Also, I suggest switching to CSS whenever you can.

EDIT: Whoops, he beat me to it

 

Lookingforgroup is right - since you are using XHTML, use styles, since the bgcolor is not supported in XHTML (strict) and deprecated from HTML 4.01 and above.