<TABLE ...><TABLE ...>BACKGROUND ="URL"
| Usage Recommendation |
|---|
This effect is done better with styles. See Table Background Colors and Images |
BACKGROUND

set BACKGROUND
<TABLE CELLPADDING=8 CELLSPACING=0 BACKGROUND="deepsea.gif">
which gives us this table:
| blah blah | yeah yeah |
| groovy dude | right on |
notive that we run into the classic problem with background images: the letters don't show up against the background. To fix this you
could go to a lot of trouble using the
<FONT ...><HEAD>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
.deepsea, .deepsea TD, .deepsea TH
{
background-image: url('deepsea.gif');
background-color:blue;
color:white;
font-family: sans-serif;
font-weight:600;
}
-->
</STYLE>
These rules state that for any element with its class set to
deepsea, or any
<TD ...><TH ...>deepsea element, there are several rules:
deepsea.gif
deepsea class. notice in the following code that we don't need to set the font colors for each individual cell:
<TABLE CELLPADDING=8 CELLSPACING=0 CLASS="deepsea"> <TR> <TD>blah blah</TD> <TD>yeah yeah</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>groovy dude</TD> <TD>right on</TD> </TR> </TABLE>
which gives us this table:
| blah blah | yeah yeah |
| groovy dude | right on |
For more information about table background colors and images see Table Background Colors and Images.