On Mon, 05 May 2008 05:34:20 GMT, rf <rf@x.invalid> wrote:

>Mason C <masoncXXX@XXXfrontal-lobe.info> wrote in
>news:t66t14d69q1us7k3g3t4obec7d49f5fe0q@4ax.com :
>
>> On Mon, 05 May 2008 08:53:54 +1000, dorayme
>> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <piiq141v482e34vauqbf89btkqb91qvf0i@4ax.com>,
>>> Mason C <masoncXXX@XXXfrontal-lobe.info> wrote:
>
>> The question was:
>>
>> The colors show ok in Opera but not in MSIE or Firefox. Why?
>>
>> I'm beginning to suspect I'm asking in the wrong group.
>
>The background colours are identical in Opera, Firefox, IE6, IE7, Seamonky
>and FWIW Netsacpe and IE5.5. They are a blue background, a table with a
>white cell, a pink one, a blueish white one, a plale blue one and a darker
>pale blue one. The sole exception is that the empty white cell collapses in
>IE browsers.
>
>I'm beginning to suspect that you are not reading the replies to your
>posts.

What am I not reading? But thanks for your observations.
Let me add more tests on my PC computer:

Safari (PC) displays the colors.
Opera ok
Netscape Communicator displays correctly except the "white" bar at the
top shows body color.

MS IE 6 and 7 show no colors and top white cell is missing
Firefox shows no colors.

The page passes WDG validation. Why does my computer do this
on Firefox and IE 6 and 7 (freshly installed 7) ? (Popular browsers.)

What am I not reading? Am I missing some replies?

I have 2 from Jukka
1 from Neil
1 from dorayme
1from rf

I'm sensing anger and annoyance from what seems to me
a simple question. I suspect the answer is *not* simple and
probably needs response from a browser program expert, not an
html expert. I'll seek elsewhere.

( I also suspect that WDG validation is of doubtful significance.)

Anyway, thanks for your time if not your tender loving care.

Mason C