HTML Style Question

Hi,

I am trying to get a style function to work but am having a few problems.

I am using tables mainly, so the effect I am looking for is here: http://www.HitEmUp.com

on the menus - the way the entire cell lights rather than just the text.

The following code works & makes this effect:

<td style="cursor:arrow" bgcolor="#F3F4F5" onmouseover="this.bgColor='#DCE0E4'" onmouseout="this.bgColor='#F3F4F5'" bgcolor="#F3F4F5" class="side"><a href="/news/">News</a></td>

The problem I have is that I am using Dreamweaver (MX) and it screws up because “bgcolor” is set more than once - the view within DW has yellow all over it (errors) making it extremely difficult to see how the HTML I am enterring is actually changing things.

The code doesn’t work properly removing one of both of the bgcolor’s - is there anyway around this problem?