Background color on template

Hi,

Usually, it's best to create a main table to frame the template and act as a container for your design. With that method you can add a style="background:#xxxxxx;" to the table element as attribute, where xxxxxx is the color code number.

The depreciated (no longer recommended) code method is bgcolor="#xxxxxx", which the editor should also accept.

Switching the template editor to Standard mode should give you the toolbars. Look for the icon that looks like a paint bucket. When you select an element, you should be able to use the background color icon to add color. There is also an Insert Table icon as a starting point.

Danno

Thanks, Danno. That helps! I got a lost on the creating a main table for the template part. How do I do that? Do I do it in another program and then transfer it to the Create a Custom Template page? (help!)

Hi,

There's a table creator icon on the toolbar that gives a popup-fill-in for creating an HTML table. The basic code for table looks like this:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background:#ff0000;"><tr><td>
<!--All other code here.-->
</td></tr></table>

That's creating a single table cell that acts as the container for the template elements and I included a red background color. I didn't put a width on the table in this example. The syntax for table is here:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_table.asp

Danno