Adding color to an entire table.

Here's a table now...

Did anyone see my grilled cheese sandwich? I've been looking for it all afternoon.

Grilled cheese is yummy.

Use the attribute bgcolor="" at the beginning of your table tag to add color to the whole table. The code looks like this (I'm not including the whole table code , just what you need):
<table width="260" height="42" border="1" align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCFF">

Adding color to table cells

Did anyone see my grilled cheese sandwich? I've been looking for it all afternoon.

Grilled cheese is yummy.

We can color cells selectively by using bgcolor="" in a cell <td></td> of our table. Notice it's the same background color tag used above, but this time, we left the table tag alone and just added the color to the cells. The code for the whole table looks like this:

<table width="425" border="1" align="center">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCFF"> Did anyone see my grilled cheese sandwich? <br>
I've been looking for it all afternoon.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFF99">Grilled cheese is yummy.</td>
</tr>
</table>

Adding An Image To The Background Of A Table

Just like adding color, we can add an image to the background of a table or to the individual cells.

To do this, we use the background="" attribute.

Did anyone see my grilled cheese sandwich? I've been looking for it all afternoon.

Grilled cheese is yummy.

<table width="384" height="93" border="1" align="center" background="images/greyfish.gif">

In the example above, I used an image that's larger than the table so it wouldn't repeat all over the place.

In the example below, where I'm adding an image only to a cell, not the whole table, I've purposely used a small image so you can see how annoying it gets when it repeats.

Did anyone see my grilled cheese sandwich? I've been looking for it all afternoon.

Grilled cheese is yummy.

<table width="425" border="1" align="center">
<tr>
<td background="images/fish.gif"> <font color="#FFFFFF">
<strong>Did anyone see my grilled cheese sandwich? <br>
I've been looking for it all afternoon.</strong></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFF99">Grilled cheese is yummy.</td>
</tr>
</table>

Now, let's move on to text and fonts...