Re: Offtopic: Need help with HTML Table Formatting

Matt Harward wrote:

Generally you wouldn't do this with a table.

I agree, but was the only tag that supported bgcolor except for body.

The same effect can be handled in better ways. Probably the easiest is to use the span tag with inline styles (contrary to what you think, you both need and want css if you want to make this easy). Something like the following should work fine:

<span style="background-color:#FF0000; color:#FFFFFF">white on red</span>

I tried it and it worked. Thanks muchly. :)

Sam




"Sam Larson" <sam212@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4634311f$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I thought this would be simple, NOT!

All I want to do is color the background of a word that is within a paragraph using HTML. So it could be say white text on a red background.


As an example, I'd like to highlight the words "background" in the previous paragraph. Simple, right? I'm displaying this HTML text in a Delphi THTMLViewer component so I don't need or want CSS.

The only way I can do it is if I insert a table into the paragraph text and use bgcolor="red" for the table (which has only that one word). Ok so this works, but now the table is positioned below the previous word (on a new line). My question is, how do I get the table to be on the same line as the previous word, because I need to highlight several words in a paragraph and the paragraph can't be broken onto a new line everytime it encounters a highlighted word. The highlighted word must run together with the rest of the paragraph.

I can't seem to get around this problem. Can anyone offer some insight? (or how about a shot of whiskey right about now?)

TIA

Sam



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