when i add the following:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
to the code the background colors for tables no longer show up and are transparent instead. even with <table style="background-color: ffffff;"> or <td style="background-color: ffffff;"> it is still transparent. I cannot figure out why this is happening. without the doctype the background colors do work.
You're missing the # in front of those examples, it should be background-color: #ffffff;.
thank you, that was the problem.
The dtd is
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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