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Summary: HTML web design allows programmers to add background color to tables just like entire pages. Code table background colors on an HTML website with a professional designer in this free web design video.
Bobbi Lindaman has a BFA in visual communications and studio art. She has more than eight years experience in print and web design and is also the owner of Lucky Lindy Designs.read more
"Now like everything, we can adjust the table background color, border color, cell color, row color, column color. It's just a matter of doing it. And we're going to start with adjusting the background color for this table. So we'll go to our main table, where we have the border turned on, and we're going to go ahead. I'm going to get rid of the border, and go ahead and change the background color. And that's bgcolor=. And we'll do a, let's do a gray. CCCCCC. Like that. So now we're not going to have a border, but we should have a white space where the border once was. We'll save that. Refresh it. Nope we don't. So let's go ahead and add our border back in. There we go. Now we have a border and a background color."
eHow Article: HTML Table Background Color
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