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Web Development - Tables

Potential Problems - Colored Table BGround

There is a potential problem if you use colored table backgrounds. Many older browsers, including some versions of Netscape, do not support table backgrounds. Thus, if you have a white page with a black table and white text on the table, to many people, the table will be white and the text will be invisible. If you can not test your code with an older browser, just remember not to use a color for text within the tables that could not be read on top of the page if the table did not exist.

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