Trying to adjust background color of a table with padding - running into issues Options

[eastbound82]

I'm developing an html template for Exact Target, the email marketing system.

I'm trying to adjust one of the content areas so the entire table has a grey background: #E8E8E8

Here is the code. I've tried adding background color="#E8E8E8" or bgcolor="#E8E8E8" but could only get it to render the background color within the row, not across the entire table. Can someone help a newbie figure out the appropriate code and placement?

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<table width="100%" style="border: 1px solid #cccccc;font: 16px arial;font-weight: normal;color: #333333;padding: 14px;margin: 0;margin-top: 12px;line-height: 20px;text-align: left;">
<tr><td>


<!-- MAKE YOUR EDITS BELOW -->


<h2 style="font: 18px georgia;font-weight: bold;margin: 0;padding: 0;margin-bottom: 8px;">

Custom Header

</h2>
This is a basic paragraph. If you want to include a link, <a href="http://AddCustomURL.com" style="color: #00a2dc; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;">be sure to copy and paste the link style from this link</a> to maintain the custom link color. Here is more paragraph text to give you an idea of the way this will look.


<!-- MAKE YOUR EDITS ABOVE -->

</td></tr>
</table>

This post has been edited by eastbound82: Jan 23 2014, 09:57 PM

[pandy]

So where did you use it? In the CSS? If so it's background-color or background. If in the HTML it's bgcolor.

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/color-ba...ound-color.html
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/color-ba...background.html
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/table.html

I don't understand though when you say it only colors the row. There's just one row, one cell. What more should it color?