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Very pesky table problem / browser issue

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Oct 30.2006

Greetings,

This is my first post… I’m a novice web developer and pro drummer running [url]www.ProMusicTeachers.com[/url].

The site is php/mysql, we have a search function smack in the middle of the index page that is set up as a <table>.

The table should have a background image… this is the code I’m using is

<table border=”0″ bgcolor=”#FF9900″ background=”/images/searchgraphic.jpg” align=”center” cellspacing=”3″ cellpadding=”0″ width=”617″>

to create the table, then comes the form. However, the background image shows up only in Safari, but not IE or Firefox. This seems like a very simple tag… and I swear last night it showed up in Firefox too but this morning will not.

Any suggestions?

Much thanks,
Brian

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@The_Little_GuyOct 30.2006 — I don't think it is working in Safari either, but I don't think that you can have [B]background[/B] in a table tag, so instead, move it to a [B]td[/B] tag
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@WebJoelOct 31.2006 — I tend to agree. Haven't used TABLE much in recent years, but bgcolor="" is for TABLE, and background="image.url" is for <TD>. It was always kind of a fluky, flaky thing that Netscape 4 would, if background="image.url" was applied to [I]TABLE[/I], would apply the image to every <[B]TD[/B]> too, instead of just the <TABLE>... made for very disparsent effects...

bgcolor="color" and background="image.url" apply nicely to <TD>s however, -color first and it will 'show thru' any transparent parts of the image.url
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@ErikTheSickOct 31.2006 — If I may add a suggestion: Do not use hard coded styling information (as you did in the table tag), use CSS instead.

cheers
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