DIV and BGCOLOR

Am I confused ot shouldn't I be able to say something like this:


<div bgcolor="#CCCCFF">
.....
</div>


And have that section of my page/table be a light blue background?

Tried it inside the HTML as well as in a style sheet, and nothing.

Thanks ahead

re: DIV and BGCOLOR

"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.comwrote in message
news:1222126516.103971@nntp.acecape.com...
I meant to say that if the DIV is inside a table it won't work....if it's
outside the table, then it does...Surely there must be a way to use div to
change just a piece or portion of a table?

re: DIV and BGCOLOR

In article <1222126516.103971@nntp.acecape.com>,
"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.comwrote:
<http://dorayme.890m.com/alt/kaplan.html>

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re: DIV and BGCOLOR

Daniel Kaplan wrote:Use CSS instead to style your page.

re: DIV and BGCOLOR

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.auwrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-But how about within a part of a table? Like spanning multiple rows and or
cells, while keeping the rest of the table alone. Is that possible? Cause
I can't do that. I can move the DIV tags to the front and end of the table
and get the entire table, but not pieces.

Please tell me it's possible.

Thanks regardless...

re: DIV and BGCOLOR

In article <1222131464.632667@nntp.acecape.com>,
"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.comwrote:
Hand on my central CPU, yes:

<http://dorayme.890m.com/alt/kaplan2.html>

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re: DIV and BGCOLOR

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.auwrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-61331B.11251523092008@web.aioe.org...I feel terrible clarifying some more...and by the way thanks for going to
the trouble of actually making samples to show me, BUT....I wanted to do it
as background color, so you wouldn't see the cell lines.....Is THAT
possible??

re: DIV and BGCOLOR

In article <1222134337.293977@nntp.acecape.com>,
"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.comwrote:
Yes, certainly. You just have to change the border from my 1px to 0.

td {border: 0;} or just leave out a border instruction altogether in
many cases.

Time to read about CSS and HTML. I suggest

http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/

but always just use a 4.01 HTML doctype for now.

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re: DIV and BGCOLOR

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.auwrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-999F73.12243523092008@web.aioe.org...

I got it now, so thanks. But strange it didn't work before. I am wondering
wether it is related to the "border-collapse" property which up till now I
was not aware of?????

Thanks for your help so much.

re: DIV and BGCOLOR

On 2008-09-22, Daniel Kaplan <NoSPam@NoSpam.comwrote:No. You can use div inside a table cell or outside the whole table. If
you want to apply styles to portions of the table, use CSS selectors.

This kind of thing:

<table>
<div>
<tr>

is invalid (and not in a way you get away with).

re: DIV and BGCOLOR

Daniel Kaplan wrote:
Yes you are. But admittedly you gave a clue of it in your forged From field.
Well, what prevents you from breaking HTML rules? Maybe some browser
actually implements such nonstandard constructs, and you end up with setting
background color without setting content color.
If it's a section, you should have something like

<div class="section ads">
...
</div>

and the specific rendering suggestions should appear in CSS, not in HTML.
This means that you are more or less in a wrong group. HTMLwise, we can just
say that your markup (in your HTML snippet) is invalid and all bets are off.
You gave no URL of your best attempt, so yes, you are confused.

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