Netscape and "no color tables" ....

**tubedogg** · Fri 16 Mar '01, 7:05am

I've taken a look at your page and while I can't quite figure out why it's doing what it's doing, I can tell you that you may be having problems because a) I don't believe that Netscape recognizes bgcolor= in the <table> definition (only in <tr> and <td>) and b) you *definitely* can't have bgcolor's in both <tr>'s and <td>'s. This being said, it shouldn't be disregarding all three colors. I'm at a loss...although I would try removing the bgcolor's from the <tr>'s and the <table>'s.

**doron** · Fri 16 Mar '01, 11:15am

Code:

<body background="http://www.hystersisters.com/picts/pat3.gif" text="#000000" id=all leftmargin="10" topmargin="10" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000">
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" BACKGROUND="images/pat3.gif" text="#000000" id=all>
<body BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">

you have 3 body tags, that is really bad. I bet that is the issue.

**Kathy** · Fri 16 Mar '01, 12:10pm

I went in and deleted the extra body tags. I can't figure out where to delete the bgcolor in those tables as Kevin suggested. After deleting the extra body tags....it looks the same in both IE and netscape. Netscape is still not showing color in the tables.

BTW, an interesting side note: The forum main page and the forums posts listing has the missing color in the tables. The actual threads/posts have the color in the table in netscape. Weird? There must be some sort of change in the coding somewhere.

**doron** · Fri 16 Mar '01, 12:33pm

Code:

<bgcolor="http://www.hystersisters.com/picts/pat3.gif" text="#000000" id=all leftmargin="10" topmargin="10" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000">

you should have left the <body in it, it should be

Code:

<body bgcolor="http://www.hystersisters.com/picts/pat3.gif" text="#000000" id=all leftmargin="10" topmargin="10" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000">

**john_parsons** · Fri 16 Mar '01, 12:43pm

Yes, it's still missing the body part of that crucial <body> tag

but how'd it get like that in the first place?!

**tubedogg** · Fri 16 Mar '01, 4:00pm

Originally posted by Kathy
I can't figure out where to delete the bgcolor in those tables as Kevin suggested.

Remove the bold part from the following:

Code:

<table [b]bgcolor="#XXXXXX"[/b] blah blah>

and also delete the bold from this:

Code:

<tr [b]bgcolor="#XXXXXX"[/b] blah blah>

Note: #xxxxxx will probably be a replacement variable (e.g. a word surrounded by { }). Just delete everything from the "b" in bgcolor to the quote mark after the }.

**Kathy** · Fri 16 Mar '01, 4:00pm

Originally posted by john_parsons
Yes, it's still missing the body part of that crucial <body> tag

but how'd it get like that in the first place?!

Wow, that was a lengthy fix for a simple problem. I have no idea how I managed to get all those body tags into the forum. But how did it get like that in the first place? Ahhh...you are assuming that I'm not brain frazzled from all these templates, style changes and variable replacements to mess with.

Oh yes, meet the latest babbling forum owner who upgraded to VB2 and was shocked at the control panel. Made me feel a bit like the wizard of oz......

Nice to meet you.

**doron** · Sat 17 Mar '01, 2:36am

btw, you are wrong, netscape does allow bgcolor in the <table> tab and the <td> tag.

to always verify your html, go to validator.w3.org

**tubedogg** · Sat 17 Mar '01, 7:01am

Originally posted by doron
btw, you are wrong, netscape does allow bgcolor in the <table> tab and the <td> tag.

I wasn't sure about the <table>; however I did and do know that it allows it in the <td> and <tr> tags:

Originally posted by tubedogg
[I don't think it allows it] in the <table> definition ( only in <tr> and <td> )

My point is, however, that she was giving it three color defintions for one cell, which is most definitely *not* going to work (it will either pick one of the the three or choose none of them; it apparently did the latter).

**doron** · Sat 17 Mar '01, 10:11am

ah, then you are right

Netscape and "no color tables" ....

Netscape and "no color tables" ....

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