I have a website that runs to some 1800 pages, most of it tables
containing data. I read in a book that some browsers do not display
empty cells. OK, I could only found one on my computer that didn't and
the offender was only Netscape 6, but the fix looked so simple that I
thought I would include it.

empty-cells: show

Now how do I get the empty cells to show the tables background colour
instead of the body background colour beneath?

Brian.

In article <oVVYi.3893$pg.3215 [at] newsfe6-win.ntli.net>,
Brian Robertson <brian [at] [nospam].com> wrote:

> I have a website that runs to some 1800 pages, most of it tables
> containing data. I read in a book that some browsers do not display
> empty cells. OK, I could only found one on my computer that didn't and
> the offender was only Netscape 6, but the fix looked so simple that I
> thought I would include it.
>
> empty-cells: show
>
> Now how do I get the empty cells to show the tables background colour
> instead of the body background colour beneath?
>
> Brian.

Which cells at

http://tinyurl.com/2xv4c8

do what you want?

--
dorayme

Scripsit Brian Robertson:

> I read in a book that some browsers do not display empty cells.

Well, that's one way of putting it. There are several oddities really.

> empty-cells: show

Won't help on IE.

> Now how do I get the empty cells to show the tables background colour
> instead of the body background colour beneath?

More or less, you don't, so don't use empty cells. Put some dummy content
there, or some real content.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/