Zeb, did the suggestions give to you by others in this thread help? I tried a single cell using the table background color and I can see no problems with it in either of my browsers (IE 5 and Netscape 4.7). If you are still stuck, perhaps posting a link to the offending page would be helpful as I think one of the resident HTML experts might be able to spot an error on the page.

As for the use of browsers, I have been through this before but much as I hate MS, I prefer thier product. I need to have both browsers as I do dabble with HTML and I believe it is essential to test anything out on at least these 2 as they can produce different results.

As far as Mudcat is concerned, I would certainly go for IE for 2 reasons. The first is the niggling Netscape Hearme problems which do exist but no one is sure as to what causes them (I suspect Smart Update) and the second is the fact that IE tends to be a lot less sensative to HTML errors. A missing closing quote in a link for example will Lock Netscape up but IE will recover. That is not to say that Netscape is wrong in refusing to pass an error, just in a forum like this where people are posting links and do make mistakes, it is handy to be able to read past them as if nothing was wrong.

The other side to this of course, is if you want to find the source of an error, Netscape is a very useful tool.

Jon