Table Background Color and Image

How to set background color for table?
Setting background image for table?

Explanation

Table with color

We can add background color to the table using the attribute "bgcolor".
This attribute can be added in "table"/"tr"/"td" tag. The color can be set on the whole to table or to rows and column
Example :

<table border=1 bgcolor="green">
<tr>
<td>
This is first column
</td>
<td bgcolor="yellow">
This is second column
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Result :

The result for above tag will be as

This is first column

This is second column

Table with background image

Now we will try to create a table with one column having a background image
Example :

<table border=1 bgcolor=green>
<tr>
<td>
This is 1st row 1st column
</td>
<td>
This is 1st row 2nd column
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
This is 2nd row 1st column
</td>
<td background="./test.jpg">
This is 2nd row 2nd column <br><br> Nice background
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Result :

The result for above tag will be as