FrontPage 2003 Top Issues

Editing Table Data Tag Bgcolor Attribute Does Not Change the Cell Background Color

• FrontPage 2003 Support

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

SYMPTOMS

In FrontPage 2003 after you use AutoFormat to format a table, when you try to change the background color of a single cell by adding a bgcolor attribute to a <td> tag, the background color of the cell does not change.

CAUSE

This issue occurs because table AutoFormatting uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control cell color. For more information about CSS, see the Microsoft FrontPage Help topic: About styles.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, customize table background colors by modifying the properties of the table. For more information, see the Microsoft FrontPage Help topic: Set the background properties of a table.

Note – You can also directly edit the HTML code that controls the background color by modifying the table’s style attribute. For more information, see the Microsoft FrontPage Help topic: Change properties for an individual HTML tag.

To customize the background colors of a data view, use conditional formatting. For more information, see the Microsoft FrontPage Help topic: Add or remove conditional formatting for a Data View.

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article – 822262