Re: <table ... and <body background ...

Alastair Aitken writes:

> I'd like to either exclude the background specified in the <body ... > </body>
> statement from a <table ... > </table> *or* specify a different background
> for the table.  As far as I am aware I cannot do either.

Could be - what sort of HTML are you writing?

>  Does anyone know better?  Has anyone wanted to do this and couldn't?  
> Does anyone else want to?

I wanted to and did, using stylesheets. This was fairly simple. See
the html [1] the stylesheet [2] and a gif of the result [3]. The relevant
parts of the stylesheet being:

  html     { color: #030; background: #F7FFD7 }
  table    { background: "smudge3.png" #FFD }

[1] http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/css/ws/confs2.html
[2] http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/css/ws/new-style.css
[3] http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/css/ws/arena-wc-tn.gif
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Received on Monday, 26 February 1996 13:11:54 UTC