setting table row color with CSS

I want to set the table row background color (bgcolor) with CSS. What is wrong with my code?

This doesn't work either:

td.blogtitle { background: 0000ff; }

I don't think bgcolor does anything in css, and color sets font color.

Worked. Thanks. I knew it was simple. I had no idea it used "background", but I should have still tried it.

remember to use the "#" when using hexadecimal notation,

ie. background:#0000ff;

Why is that? I never use #. I also never used quotes when declaring anything in HTML, is that bad too?

the use of # is to define that the color attributes you are using are in hexadecimal form
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#color-units

in xhtml you always have to quote the attributes
you are using,
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.4

If you look at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#color-units you will see that there is not other possible interpretation if you do not use the "#" sign... so most browsers probably default to the proper hexadecimal parsing.

Check this out about empty elements:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines

These guidelines are almost never followed.

but you can't be sure of that so,
therefor one should always specify.

its just the same as setting width:100; to
an element, some browsers might parces that
as 100px, but most wont (as they should)
so you can't always relay on the browsers,

But guidelines are created so that you obey them - and if you want to produce clean code I think you should obey them. Even if nobody else does I see this just as a work that I do to make my code easier to read and understand. I understand it if you don't know that guidelines that you then wouldn't obey them. But as you know them you should use them. And it isn't to hard to add a # or a / - or? At least I try to add them where necessary as long as I remember it

I was interested in the response to the person who wanted to set the background color of a table row. To my way of thinking however the response only applied to setting the background color of an individual cell.

What is the syntax for setting the color for the whole row without dealing with each cell individually

I tried the following without success

tr.special {background #000080;}


<tr class="special">

Can someone help me out?

Make sure you have a colon between background and your color:

{background: #000080;}

Good point. You can not see it from my code, but in my table my row only had one cell so I decided to change just the cell (or just the "td"). Just use the code that works and replace "td" with "tr" like Ucht said.

Akh and fgeller, I agree. I am going to go add "#" to all my colors and start quoting variable initializations. It does make sense to stick with what you know is proper.

Thanks for the reply. However I still couldnt get it to work so I decided to just use just straight html <tr bgcolor="#000080">