Table problem under Netscape 4.75

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Hi All,
I have this problem I cannot resolve. I'm trying to create a table with background image and a colored cell. The code below shows what I'm trying to achieve. It works fine on IE. Under Netscape the background image is shown but the cell is not colored unless I remove the image.
<HTML>
<BODY>
<TABLE BORDER=1 BACKGROUND="whatever.jpg">
<TR><TD>Normal cell</TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#FF0000">Colored cell</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Thanks in advance,
Tom

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I checked the references and in html 3.2 neither background or bgcolor are listed as attributes of either table or td. in html 4, they are both listed as attributes of table and bgcolor is listed as attribute of td. however it says they have been deprecated(it says to use styles instead). by rights it should work in both but I have found several things that should work but only work in IE(including java 1 code). also many things that shouldnt work will in IE. to make it work try using styles

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