color change for one cell

[Stacy Pober]

I looked at your page and the color problem did occur in my browser 
(Netscape 3.01 Gold running on Windows for Workgroups 3.11)   
I have used a similar code on my pages and had no problems at 
all, so to see what your problem I downloaded the file locally and 
looked at the code in Notepad.  

Interestingly, in Notepad, there were little non-ascii codes at the 
end of each line of HTML.  These appeared as solid rectangular boxes, 
one character in size.   They are something like the unwanted code I 
get at the end of a document when I save a file in WordPerfect 5.1 in 
ASCII text.  

I hand-deleted the little boxes, resaved the document, and lo and 
behold, your color code for that TD table cell suddenly worked just 
fine.   

I suspect your word processor is inserting a non-visible character 
at every line break in your HTML.  While I could not see it in View  
Document Source in Netscape, they were consistently there when the 
same file was opened in Notepad.  Similar small graphics characters 
were at the *beginning* of each line when I opened the file in 
Microsoft Word.  (Looked at it in WordPerfect for Windows but didn't 
see any problems there.) 

Try the same code typed in using another word processing program or a 
simple text editor such as Notepad on a Windows 3.1 system (hey, 
maybe the unwanted code is not a Win95 problem as such, but you never 
know...)  

Good luck,
Stacy

>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
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