Borders		width		cellpadding		background images		rowspan
alignment		height		cellspacing		background colour		colspan

Table Attributes

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Background Images

You can set your whole table to have a background image, or just the individual data cell. If you put the background image in the data cell, then you could set each cell to have a different image.

using table background images

<table width="200" height="200" background="clover.gif">
<tr>
<td>
first cell
</td>
<td>
second cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

putting the background in the entire table if you have multiple cells, the background still covers them all.

using td background images

<table width="200" height="200">
<tr>
<td background="clover.gif">
first cell
</td>
<td>
second cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

putting the background into a data cell if you have multiple cells, the rest aren't affected by the background

using multiple td background images

<table width="200" height="200">
<tr>
<td background="clover.gif">
first cell
</td>
<td background="stained_glass_spirals.jpg">
second cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

putting the background into a data cell you can set different backgrounds in each data cell

mixing table and td background images

<table width="200" height="200" background="engravedflowers.gif">
<tr>
<td>
first cell
</td>
<td background="stained_glass_spirals.jpg">
second cell
</td>
<td>
third cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

this data cell has no background set so it has the table background showing through this data cell has a background specified this data cell has no background set so it has the table background showing through

Background Colour

using table background colours

<table width="200" height="200" bgcolor="#ff0000">
<tr>
<td>
first cell
</td>
<td>
second cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

setting the background colour in the entire table if you have multiple cells, the background colour still covers them all.

using td background colours

<table width="200" height="200">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#ff0000">
first cell
</td>
<td>
second cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

putting the background colour into a data cell if you have multiple cells, the rest aren't affected by the background colour of another cell

using multiple td background colours

<table width="200" height="200">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#ff0000">
first cell
</td>
<td bgcolor="#c0c0c0">
second cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

putting the background colour into a data cell you can set different background colours in each data cell

mixing table background colours and td background colours

<table width="200" height="200" bgcolor="#ff0000">
<tr>
<td>
first cell
</td>
<td bgcolor="#c0c0c0">
second cell
</td>
<td>
third cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

this data cell has no background colour set so it has the table background colour showing through this data cell has a background colour specified this data cell has no background colour set so it has the table background colour showing through

mixing background colours and background images

<table width="200" height="200" bgcolor="#ff0000">
<tr>
<td>
first cell
</td>
<td background="clover.gif">
second cell
</td>
<td bgcolor="#c0c0c0">
third cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

this data cell has no background colour set so it has the table background colour showing through this data cell has a background specified this data cell has a background colour set

Next: Setting your tables out exactly how you want them

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