Try again with HTML:
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style="color:#EEEEEE;background-color:Silver;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;">
<td> </td><td> </td><td style="width:10px;">ID</td><td>First
Name</td><td>Last Name</td><td>User
ID</td><td>Password</td><td>Email</td><td>Phone</td><td>Ext</td><td>Fax</td><td>Role</td>
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style="background-color:#EEEEEE;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;">
<td><a
href="javascript
:__doPostBack('dgClientContacts$_c tl2$_ctl0','')">Update</a> <a
href="javascript
:__doPostBack('dgClientContacts$_c tl2$_ctl1','')">Cancel</a></td><td><a
href="javascript
:__doPostBack('dgClientContacts$_c tl2$_ctl2','')">Delete</a></td><td>3</td><td><input
name="dgClientContacts:_ctl2:_ctl3" type="text" value="Bruce "
/></td><td><input name="dgClientContacts:_ctl2:_ctl4" type="text"
value="Forbes " /></td><td><input
name="dgClientContacts:_ctl2:_ctl5" type="text" value="bf
" /></td><td>
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</td><td><input name="dgClientContacts:_ctl2:_ctl7" type="text"
value="Br**********@paradise.net.nz " /></td><td><input
name="dgClientContacts:_ctl2:_ctl8" type="text" value="(07) 362 8011 "
/></td><td><input name="dgClientContacts:_ctl2:_ctl9" type="text"
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type="text" /></td><td><input name="dgClientContacts:_ctl2:_ctl11"
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<span id="lblClientName" style="width:266px;Z-INDEX: 102; LEFT: 272px;
POSITION: absolute; TOP: 32px">Carter Holt Harvey Panels - MDF</span><span
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32px">Contacts at </span>
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POSITION: absolute; TOP: 72px">Back to Clients</a></form>
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"Bazza Formez" <ba**********@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
news:7V********************@news02.tsnz.net...
Thanks for that John.. but I am still completely puzzled. I looked at the
HTML vis VS as you suggested, but cannot spot anything that could render
the backgorund I am seeing in threee of the editable fields... It seems to
be the browser going awry to me...
I just tried cutting and pasting that same HTML into this message to show
you... and the new client rendered it correctly before my eyes...
On my IE6 browser, the same HTML below renders with yellow background for
the email, phone & ext fields in the table below..
ID First Name Last Name User ID Password Email Phone Ext Fax Role
Update Cancel Delete 3
Very strange !
Tried same page with Firefox, and all ok.
Cheers,
Bruce