At 09:45 AM 5/7/1998 -0700, Jack Killpatrick so eloquently stated:
>Suz wrote:
>
>> For some reason I'm just now getting around to experimenting with table
>> cells with background colors, and am running into a problem: if a cell
>> doesn't have any type in it, the background color disappears leaving the
>> page background in its place. Is there any way to have an *empty*
>> cell with
>> a colored background but with no type in it?
>
>You can use a one pixel transparent gif, set the td bgcolor to whatever
>strikes your fancy and resize the gif to your hearts delight. Sometimes you
>can also just plop in the 1x1 gif, leave it at 1x1 and adjust your cell
>width and height to whatever you want; you'll still get the bgcolor. This is
>great for "unknown" width and height resizable cells - like cells in tables
>that use percentages or in vertical cells that resize depending on how much
>text is in a neighboring cell. Here's an example I slapped together:
>
>http://www.infusiondesign.com/examples/cells_as_rules.html
>
Jack:
You can't keep us hanging like that. What happened to Alice?
G
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