When I added &nobr; to cells I get the colors I used in the <TD BGCOLOR=""> tag, and it came out OK in http://www.index-site.com/browser.html All other carbon/cocoa browsers were able to distinguish BGCOLOR tags in tables without the aid of a no breaking space character. Please make it possible in Mozilla.

Added Mozilla version to the report.

This is a quirk. It's only present in quirks mode (pages with no doctype or known quirks doctypes). Add a doctype declaration (4.01 Transitional with URI, for that page) to your page and you will see the per-spec behavior. In quirks mode you see the "NS 4.x" behavior. Marking duplicate of bug 4510, which proposes to get rid of all table background quirks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4510 ***

*** Bug 90806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Boris, you are wrong. If a page author want's to show empty cells in a table he has to say so. By setting empty-cells:show these cells are shown. In quirks mode we initialize empty-cells: hide and in standard mode to empty-cells:show. The CSS2 spec makes no hint to which value this should be initialized. By switching the doctype the author relies on the UA to get the default behavior. NN 4x use empty-cells:hide and you can't switch it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8113 ***

*** Bug 90908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***