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

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by newbiesiteguy, Feb 6, 2006.

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    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.
     
    newbiesiteguy, Feb 6, 2006 IP
  2. draculus

    draculus Peon

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    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>
     
    draculus, Feb 7, 2006 IP
  3. LookingForGroup

    LookingForGroup Guest

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    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, Feb 7, 2006 IP
  4. Corey Bryant

    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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    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.
     
    Corey Bryant, Feb 7, 2006 IP