Border Color and Backgrounds
Internet Explorer accepts a number of additional attributes to its table tags. These attributes let you set images for the backgrounds and border colors of table elements. They can set values for the whole table, individual rows, and individual cells. Values can be set in a nested fashion, so that a specification for a single cell can override the broader setting for its row or the whole table.
Each attribute accepts a value specified as either an RGB color value or a standard color name, both of which are described in Chapter 8.
The background
attribute
allows you to set a background image for the entire table or individual
cells. The image is tiled behind the appropriate
table element automatically. The value of the background
attribute is
the URL of the image file.
Borders in Netscape and Internet Explorer create a 3D effect by using
three differently colored strips. There is a thick center strip with much
thinner strips on each side. One of the outer strips is colored darker
than the center strip, and one is lighter, producing a shadowed effect.
Internet Explorer allows you to set the colors for each of these elements when
you have borders turned on with the border
attribute in the
<table>
tag.
The bordercolor
attribute sets the color of the main center strip
of a border.
The bordercolorlight
attribute sets the color of the light
strip of a border, the top- or left-most strip. bordercolordark
sets the color of the dark strip, the bottom or right-most ...
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