- HTML Table Background
- Setting All Background Styles
- Background Color
- Table Background Image
- Non-Repeating Background Image
- Background Image on Table Cells
- Related
- HTML Table Background Color
- Background Color for the Whole Table
- Background Color of a Table Row
- Background Color of a Single Cell
- Using Classes
- Coloring CSS Tables
- CSS Table Background color
- Source Code
- How to color specific row in a CSS Table
- CSS Code
- How to color specific column in a CSS Table
- CSS Code
- How to color CSS Table cell only
- CSS Table Alternate row coloring
- CSS Code
- CSS Table Color first column and first row
- HTML Table Background Color
- Background Color for the Whole Table
- Background Color of a Table Row
- Background Color of a Single Cell
- Using Classes
- Table Background Color
- Background Color for Whole Table
- Background Color for Table Row
- Background Color for Table Cell
- Using CSS Classes
HTML Table Background
This page contains HTML table background code. This code enables you to modify the background of your HTML tables. For example, you can change the background color or add a background image to your tables.
Setting All Background Styles
There is a shorthand CSS property that allows you to set all your background styles in one go. This property is the background property.
This is the property that most web developers use for setting their table backgrounds, as it’s quicker to use and it helps to minimize code. This property allows you to set the background color and a background image properties using one property. You can see it in action with the following example.
If you have difficulty understanding this property, have a look at the other examples on this page. They should make things a bit clearer for you.
Background Color
The following example demonstrates how background color can be applied to the table using the background-color property. Check out HTML Table Background Color to see more examples of adding background color to a table.
Table Background Image
Here’s an example of adding a background image to your table by using the CSS background-image property.
The background image in this example automatically repeats across the full width and height of the table. In other words, if the background image is smaller than the table, it will be displayed again and again until it reaches the edge of the table.
Here’s the actual image that we will use in the following example:
As you can see, this image is smaller than the width of the table, so it repeated across the full width and height of the table.
In this example, we also add a thin border to our table. Here’s more about HTML table borders.
Non-Repeating Background Image
Sometimes you might not want the background image to repeat. Sometimes you might want it to appear once only. For this effect, you can use the CSS background-repeat property. You can also use the background-position property to define where the image is positioned within the table. For example, you could position the image in the center of the table, or at the top-left or bottom-right etc.
Background Image on Table Cells
You could also add a background image to each individual table cell. You could use a different image for each cell or the same image. If you use the same image, it would give it that «repeat» effect and the «repeat» could be precisely aligned with each table cell (but it doesn’t have to be). You could also achieve this effect using a repeating background image on the whole table, but you’d need to ensure that each cell is exactly the same size as the image, and you might need to play around with the table border.
Here’s an example of adding a background image to each cell using a CSS class with an embedded style sheet:
Related
HTML Table Background Color
This page contains HTML table background color code. These are HTML codes for specifying or changing the background color of your tables within your blog or web page.
In HTML, table background color is specified using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In particular, you use the CSS background-color property to set the background color for your table. You can also specify a separate background color for your table rows and table cells if you like.
Background Color for the Whole Table
To change the background color of the whole table, use the background-color property against the table tag.
Background Color of a Table Row
To change the background color of a table row, you apply the same code, but to the table row in question (i.e. the tr tag).
Here we also use border-collapse:collapse; to collapse the border.
Background Color of a Single Cell
To change the background color of a single table cell, you apply the same code, but to the table cell in question (i.e. the td tag or the th tag, depending on whether the cell is a normal table data row or part of a table header).
Using Classes
The above examples use inline style sheets to set the CSS properties. This is only because it makes it easier for demonstration purposes. I strongly encourage you to use a CSS class defined in an external style sheet to set your styles. Even embedded style sheets are usually better than inline.
Here’s an example of setting the table’s background color and other properties using a CSS class.
Coloring CSS Tables
The previous chapter covered how to change the basic styles of the table using CSS. In this chapter we are going to a give more styles to the tables using CSS. Once you create the structure of the table in the markup, its easy to adding a layer of style to customize its appearance.
CSS Table Background color
The CSS background-color property allows you to color background of a table, row and cells.
The above code color the background of each row as green color and foreground color as white.
Source Code
How to color specific row in a CSS Table
You can use the tr:nth-child(rownumber) to color a particular row in a table using CSS.
Above code select the 3 row from top (including table head row) and color background as green and foreground as white.
CSS Code
Applied this CSS code to the Example 1 HTML Table
How to color specific column in a CSS Table
You can give background color to specific column by suing td:nth-child(columnnumber) .
Above code color the first coloumn background color as Orange.
CSS Code
Applied this CSS code to the Example 1 HTML Table
How to color CSS Table cell only
The following source code shows how to color a particular cell in a table using CSS.
CSS Table Alternate row coloring
You can use tr:nth-child(rowOrder) to give alternating row color to a Table using CSS. The rowOrder must be «odd» or «even».
Above code color every even row order to background color as orange.
CSS Code
Applied this CSS code to the Example 1 HTML Table
For CSS table alternate column coloring you can use the CSS code like the following.
Above code color alternate column to Orange background.
CSS Table Color first column and first row
Using a simple technique, you can color the first row and first column of a CSS table.
HTML Table Background Color
This page contains HTML table background color code. These are HTML codes for specifying or changing the background color of your tables within your blog or web page.
In HTML, table background color is specified using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In particular, you use the CSS background-color property to set the background color for your table. You can also specify a separate background color for your table rows and table cells if you like.
Background Color for the Whole Table
To change the background color of the whole table, use the background-color property against the table tag.
Background Color of a Table Row
To change the background color of a table row, you apply the same code, but to the table row in question (i.e. the tr tag).
Here we also use border-collapse:collapse; to collapse the border.
Background Color of a Single Cell
To change the background color of a single table cell, you apply the same code, but to the table cell in question (i.e. the td tag or the th tag, depending on whether the cell is a normal table data row or part of a table header).
Using Classes
The above examples use inline style sheets to set the CSS properties. This is only because it makes it easier for demonstration purposes. I strongly encourage you to use a CSS class defined in an external style sheet to set your styles. Even embedded style sheets are usually better than inline.
Here’s an example of setting the table’s background color and other properties using a CSS class.
Table Background Color
This page demonstrates how to set the table background color within your web pages and other HTML documents. You can use the same colors presented here, or use any background color you like, as long as the color is specified in a way that is recognized by HTML.
In HTML, table background color is defined using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Specifically, you use the background-color property to define background color. You can apply this property against the whole table, a row, or a single cell.
Below are some examples of applying background color to a table in HTML.
Background Color for Whole Table
Background Color for Table Row
Here, we add a different background color to the first row, which happens to be the table header row. Therefore, we have one background color for the table, and a different background color for the table header row. Note that we also change the text color for the table header — this makes it easier to read.
Background Color for Table Cell
Using CSS Classes
It’s good practice to keep your CSS separate from the table when setting its styles. For example, you can define all your styles at the top of your HTML document or even in a separate CSS file. When you do this, you can create a «class» that holds all the styles for your table (or any other element). Then, to use these styles, you simply add class=»» where is the name of your class.
Here’s an example of using an embedded style sheet to define the background color of your HTML tables. Note that the styles are set in between the tags.
Here’s another example, but this one’s using a different set of styles, including a different background color for the table and the table header.
You’ll notice that we’ve also modified the bottom border of each table cell and changed the font family within each table cell (but not the table headers).