[thelist] I'll bet this has been asked before

[Tobyn Baugher]

I made a quick sweep of the archive, just to check. It seems to be a
common problem for me, with Netscape and table backgrounds, and it's
something I just end up designing around most of the time, but I wanna
find out once and for all what's going on.

Okay, I have some code in a certain page like this:

<TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
  <TR>
    <TD BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><IMG SRC="images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="1"
HEIGHT="1"></TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD BACKGROUND="images/topbartile.gif">
      <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="0">
        <TR>
          <TD BGCOLOR="#003366" CLASS="footer">
          *SNIP*
          </TD>
        </TR>
      </TABLE>
    </TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><IMG SRC="images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="1"
HEIGHT="1"></TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE>

Now what this is supposed to do is create a table like the following

--------------------------------------------------------------------
********************************************************************
** Text goes in here                                              **
********************************************************************
--------------------------------------------------------------------

where the -'s represent a white outline on the top and bottom of the
table, the *'s represent the background .gif for the middle of the
table, and the area in the middle is a solid dark blue with text inside
it.

When rendering in Netscape 4.x, the dark blue solid field is missing and
the text just shows up on top of the table background .gif. Is there a
reason for this? Is there a documented, easy, compatible way to get
around it and still create the same effect? Preferably without nesting
more tables :P?

Apologize if the question is newbified, but I come out decidedly on the
coding side of the coin and a lot of the designing is greek to me.

Much appreciated,
Toby

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