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Table Backgrounds

Table Background

Table Background

background

The background code allows you to change the background inside your table to that of an image of your choice.

The background tag goes inside the table tags. The code will look like this:

<table border="1" background="http://personalweb.about.com/library/graphics/but11.gif">
<tr>
<td><B>row 1, column 1</B></td><td><B>row 1, columnn 2</B></td>
</tr>
</table>

bgcolor

The bgcolor tag will change the color of the background inside your table.

The code for the bgcolor tag goes inside the table tags and will look like this:

<table border="1" bgcolor="red">
<tr>
<td><B>row 1, column 1</B></td><td><B>row 1, columnn 2</B></td>
</tr>
</table>

Below is what this looks like:

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