<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Table and table cell backgrounds</title> <style type="text/css" media="all"> table { font: 1em/1.5em Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(230,230,230); border: 1px solid black; margin: 1em; border-collapse: separated; } td { vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0 0.5em; border: 1px dashed black; } td.background { background-color: rgb(200,200,200); } </style></head><body> <table> <tr> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor</td> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor</td> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor</td> <td class="background">Lorem ipsum dolor</td> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="background">Lorem ipsum dolor</td> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor</td> <td class="background">Lorem ipsum dolor</td> </tr> </table></body></html>