HTML Tags/Table Tags/background image

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Type: Extension

The background attribute of the TABLE, TR, and TD (TH) elements specifies the background image of the table.

<table background="back.gif"> : Applied to an entire table.

<tr background="back.gif"> : Applied to all cells in a row.

<td background="back.gif"> : Applied to one cell.

Attribute	Value	Explanation
background=" "	URL	the URL of the image to display

Extension attribute. (Non standard attribute)

Tips and Notes

Use CSS instead of this attribute. Please see the "Related Document" for details on CSS.

Example

Background image

Background image of the table

<table border="1" background="image/back.gif">
<tr>
<td>Row1 - Col1</td>
<td>Row1 - Col2</td>
<td>Row1 - Col3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row2 - Col1</td>
<td>Row2 - Col2</td>
<td>Row2 - Col3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row3 - Col1</td>
<td>Row3 - Col2</td>
<td>Row3 - Col3</td>
</tr>
</table>

Output

Row1 - Col1	Row1 - Col2	Row1 - Col3
Row2 - Col1	Row2 - Col2	Row2 - Col3
Row3 - Col1	Row3 - Col2	Row3 - Col3

Background image of the row

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Row1 - Col1</td>
<td>Row1 - Col2</td>
<td>Row1 - Col3</td>
</tr>
<tr background="image/back.gif">
<td>Row2 - Col1</td>
<td>Row2 - Col2</td>
<td>Row2 - Col3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row3 - Col1</td>
<td>Row3 - Col2</td>
<td>Row3 - Col3</td>
</tr>
</table>

Output

Row1 - Col1	Row1 - Col2	Row1 - Col3
Row2 - Col1	Row2 - Col2	Row2 - Col3
Row3 - Col1	Row3 - Col2	Row3 - Col3

Background image of the cells

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Row1 - Col1</td>
<td background="image/back.gif">Row1 - Col2</td>
<td>Row1 - Col3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row2 - Col1</td>
<td background="image/back.gif">Row2 - Col2</td>
<td>Row2 - Col3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row3 - Col1</td>
<td background="image/back.gif">Row3 - Col2</td>
<td>Row3 - Col3</td>
</tr>
</table>

Output

Row1 - Col1	Row1 - Col2	Row1 - Col3
Row2 - Col1	Row2 - Col2	Row2 - Col3
Row3 - Col1	Row3 - Col2	Row3 - Col3