Html Colour box backgrounds

Hi all.
Just looking for the right html to create boxes ( like a background for specific areas of the page ) of varying sizes to create distinct areas.
eg. http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Would like to use variety of colours and maybe sometimes add a border.
Struggling to find right code.
Hope you can help.
Paddy.

What have you tried so far?

Hi tried this - but it also has a table woven into it and don't know which bits to lose to make it work.

<STYLE type=text/css>
<!--
.tealtable, .tealtable TD, .tealtable TH
{
background-color:white;
color:black;
}
-->
</STYLE>
<TABLE class=tealtable cellPadding=10>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TH><EM>Operator</EM></TH>
<TH><EM>Ext</EM></TH>
<TH><EM>City</EM></TH></TR>
<TR>
<TD>Starflower</TD>
<TD>8172</TD>
<TD>San Francisco</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD>Melody</TD>
<TD>5673</TD>
<TD>San Pedro</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD>Symphony</TD>
<TD>3820</TD>
<TD>Montreal</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>Column 1</TD>
<TD>Column 2</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

This is what you have so far.... see screenshot...
What do you want to do now?

I guess I don't quite understand your question...

i think he wants it tighter together. you gotta work on your cellpadding and cell spaceing. Also if you want it like the bbc page you wanna use css. thats what they use. you can learn it in a week so get on it. go to https://www.w3schools.com you'll learn everything you'll ever need. and once you learn it you only have to use the code one per area.

border-collapse: collapse; <--- mmmmmm

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All I'm trying to get is a coloured box on which I can place whatever picx/text.
I'd like to be able to accurately control the size, colour & border. Maybe use a few in one page to seperate areas.

Is there a shortcut to this or do I need to do CSS as Daygon suggests?

Appreciate you help guys.
Paddywhack.

Here's a table sample

Code: Select all

<table width="350" border="2" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#FF0000" bgcolor="#FFCC00">
  <tr>
    <td><p align="center">You'd put <br />
      your images <br />
      or text in here. </p>
      
  </tr>
</table>

see screenshot

But using tables is not recommended. It's yesterdays way of handling web design.

So instead of spending time learning something old (above)
Go here to see how to do it in today's standards.

Yeah use css like i said. BBC does it why cant you?<--- british css slogan heh im not british. SHHHH!