color change for one cell

Mon Nov 17 12:01:49 EST 1997

Is there a valid means of changing background color, for just one cell of a
table?

The following seems to  work on my win95 PC under both netscape 3 and
communicator.  However under netscape 2, the background color does not
change at all, and worse, is that under netscape 3 on another Win95 PC, IT
only changed for the lines of text within the cell, not for the full 'box'
itself.

The actual page (it is only a test page) is at:
  htt://www.tiac.net/users/wethpl

The code involved is:

<BODY BGCOLOR="ffdd99"  LINK="880088" VLINK="800000">
 <h2><center><img src="book5.gif" align=bottom height=48 width=48
alt="books and the world ">
<b>Welcome to the Wethersfield Public Library<br></b></center>
</h2><hr>

<table WIDTH=100% cellspacing=5 valign=top>

 <tr>
<td width=40% align=left valign=top  bgcolor="#ffffff">
<ul>  <strong>Selections</strong>
<li><a href="about.htm">About Wethersfield Public Library</a>
<li><a href="catalog.htm">Library Catalogs</a>
<li><a href="http://www.state.ct.us/WETHERSFIELD/wethersfield.htm">Town of
Wethersfield</a>
<li><a href="referenc.htm">Reference Services</a>
<li><a href="kids.htm">Childrens page</a>
 <li><a href="friends.htm">Friends of the Library</a>
</ul>

</td>
<td width=60% valign=middle align=center>
Wethersfield Public Library
 <br>
515 Silas Deane Highway
  <br>
Wethersfield, Ct. 06109
 <br>
phone: 860-721-2985 
 <br>
fax: 860-721-2991
<br>

</td>
</tr>

</table>

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Isabel L. Danforth   Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
danforth at tiac.net     Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
		       http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/ 
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