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mpedrummer2 · 02-20-2004, 06:31 PM

Sigh. Time to fix some shitty code, but I need some help here.

I wrote a little PHP/MySQL app to monitor service calls for my company. It, in turn, generates these cute little reports for management, etc, that are color-coded. I just use CSS, class="whatever" and then those class definitions have bgcolor defined in them.

Works just fine in IE. However, the company has (wisely) decided that IE is not necessarily the be-all-end-all browser, and they're playing with Firefox. I must say, I dig Firefox, but here's the problem...Firefox doesn't support bgcolor in CSS.

So...I need a way to make an area (formerly defined by a div) be a different color. The area contains a few tables, and I have been able to get them colored the way I want, but it's not the same effect...the old way, all the space was uniformly filled, regardless of how much of the space was used. If I make the table fixed width, the content gets really spread out and crappy.

So, who has an idea? Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

MPEDrummer

02-20-2004, 06:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
mpedrummer2 Insane	[CSS(?)] bgcolor and browsers Sigh. Time to fix some shitty code, but I need some help here. I wrote a little PHP/MySQL app to monitor service calls for my company. It, in turn, generates these cute little reports for management, etc, that are color-coded. I just use CSS, class="whatever" and then those class definitions have bgcolor defined in them. Works just fine in IE. However, the company has (wisely) decided that IE is not necessarily the be-all-end-all browser, and they're playing with Firefox. I must say, I dig Firefox, but here's the problem...Firefox doesn't support bgcolor in CSS. So...I need a way to make an area (formerly defined by a div) be a different color. The area contains a few tables, and I have been able to get them colored the way I want, but it's not the same effect...the old way, all the space was uniformly filled, regardless of how much of the space was used. If I make the table fixed width, the content gets really spread out and crappy. So, who has an idea? Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated. MPEDrummer __________________ My sig can beat up your honor student.