Table background not colored?

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 11:46 am

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  Hi, my blog is http://www.mandmigop.dk

  I use a pice of code for getting my visitors to subscribe, it’s a table. (se it at the top here http://mandmigop.dk/2011/09/12/sig-fra/)

  In my html I set the background color for orange, in my editor its orange… on my blog it’s white… why? Can I fix it?

  /Morten

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Sep 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm

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  Instead of this:
  <td style="text-align:center;" bgcolor="orange">
  use this:
  <td style="text-align:center;background-color:orange;">

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 3:56 pm

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  Ill try that. Thanks

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 5:36 pm

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  It works – thanks.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 5:56 pm

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  You’ll have better control if you use hex color codes instead of basic color names. And you’re using outdated coding; these things don’t work:
  width="100%" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
  Your table should be like that:

  <table style="border:2px solid #HEX;">
  <tr>
  <td style="text-align:center;background-color:#HEX;">
  CONTENT HERE
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>

  Replace HEX with the colors you prefer. Good palettes here:
  http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html

  If you wish to change the padding, you must add it to the td style.
  Specifying a 100% width is superfluous, as it’s the default in the theme you’re using.

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 8:36 pm

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  Thx, IM not a coder. Found the one I’m using on a forum

  But what if I change theme later. Still no need for 100%?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 8:45 pm

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  Depends on the theme. If you need it, you write:
  <table style="width:100%;border:2px solid #HEX;">