# HTML Style Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-style-question/197928>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [August 20, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-style-question/197928 "2006-08-20T23:24:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![RageW0lf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@RageW0lf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RageW0lf)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-style-question/197928/1 "2006-08-20T23:24:14Z")

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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](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:

```auto
<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?