color change for one cell

[Isabel Danforth]

It appears that Netscape 3.0 perhaps 3.01 do lose the color in the table
cell when the color is white.  I did remove the marks Stacy mentioned, and
Netscape 3.0 still lost the white.  however, with a non white color, it
seems to work.  I set the bdcolor to be fffffe  and that seems to do the
trick.   

Who knows.

Isabel



At 09:57 PM 11/17/97 EST5EDT, Stacy Pober wrote:
>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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