Web Design Garage

Chapter 24. Coloring and Formatting CSS Divs

Topic 23 showed you how to color the cells of a table. You can specify background colors for divs, too, along with a couple of other appearance attributes that HTML tables just don't support. Once again, as with all things CSS, make sure you test your design in a number of browsers before you upload to the Web. Who knows how your target browsers will garble your perfectly legitimate CSS markup this time.

If the layout in Figure 24.1 looks familiar, that's because you've seen something like it before, in Topic 18, to be exact. No background colors appear in the code, as the View Source bears out. As you can see in Figure 24.2, adding the background-color attribute to the style definition creates a more ...