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.

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

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.

Variable?

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.

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'>"
...

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?

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.