Applying a color scheme to a table

Table elements support the same bgcolor attribute that can be applied to an entire Web page. This attribute can be added to <table>, <tr>, <td>, or <th>, tags as follows:

HTML tagsComments
<table bgcolor="color">
<tr bgcolor="color">
<td bgcolor="color">
<th bgcolor="color">
applying background color to all table cells
applying background color to the entire row of cells
applying background color to a particular cell
applying background color to a particular cell

Here color is either HTML color name or its RGB encoding.

Usage of these attributes is demonstrated on the following examples.

Setting background color of all table cells:

LayoutHTML tags
cell 1cell 2
cell 3
 <table border="1" bgcolor="orange">
<tr><td>cell 1</td> <td>cell 2</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">cell 3</td></tr>
</table>

Setting background color of the first row of cells:

LayoutHTML tags
cell 1cell 2
cell 3
 <table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="orange"><td>cell 1</td>
<td>cell 2</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">cell 3</td></tr>
</table>

Setting background color of the first cell only:

LayoutHTML tags
cell 1cell 2
cell 3
 <table border="1">
<tr><td bgcolor="orange">cell 1</td>
<td>cell 2</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">cell 3</td></tr>
</table>