Is there a way to change the background color on tables? Options

[Aruban]

I want to be able to change the background color of specific cells in a table as opposed to changing every cell in the table. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

[pandy]

Sure, with the bgcolor attribute.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/td.html
It's better done with CSS though.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/colo...ound-color.html

[Aruban]

Sorry. I asked the wrong question. What I meant to ask was:

Is there a way to change a cell's background color based upon the variable within that cell?

Thanks.

Sure, with the bgcolor attribute.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/td.html
It's better done with CSS though.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/colo...ound-color.html

[pandy]

Variable?

[Aruban]

I have a form users are filling out. When completed and submit button is pressed, all the information is reprocessed onto a handling page....it's reformatted using tables. I want certain cells in the tables to change background colors based upon the users input in that category.

Variable?

[Darin McGrew]

The cleanest way is to use CSS classes, and to have the server-side program that is processing the form data to assign classes based on the input. Something like

if (value == "apple") then print "<td class='redfruit'>"
if (value == "orange") then print "<td class='orangefruit'>"
if (value == "banana" || value == "lemon") then print "<td class='yellowfruit'>"
...

[Aruban]

Thanks Darin. The other thing I noticed as I was experimenting with background colors in tables is that, if I print the html file, the colors don't show up. It's all black and white. I double-checked my print settings, which are set for color. Any thoughts?

The cleanest way is to use CSS classes, and to have the server-side program that is processing the form data to assign classes based on the input. Something like

if (value == "apple") then print "<td class='redfruit'>"
if (value == "orange") then print "<td class='orangefruit'>"
if (value == "banana" || value == "lemon") then print "<td class='yellowfruit'>"
...

[Darin McGrew]

The other thing I noticed as I was experimenting with background colors in tables is that, if I print the html file, the colors don't show up. It's all black and white. I double-checked my print settings, which are set for color. Any thoughts?

I've seen this kind of thing when the style sheet is specified for media="screen" rather than media="screen,print". The article Going to Print discusses print style sheets as a positive thing, but the flip side is that if you specify style sheets for screen only, then they won't apply when the page is printed.