Have I lost my mind?? Table cell problems

Okay, I've been working with tables forever, so why is it I'm having trouble now? Here's the deal---two things actually:

1. the page is 'mostly' text (all but for a top border I want to use). I want 2 ROWS and 1 COLUMN in each row. That's it. Nothing fancy. But when I try to do this the text goes from the darker color I'm using to a faded gray that's hardly readable. Any clue why this is?

2. I want two separate rows because I want an image underneath the header text... a non-tiling image. For some reason the tag that 'used' to work now doesn't...

<TD background="images/image.jpg">

Am I forgetting/missing something??? Anyway, I could use some help with this.

Thanks.

Looks like the code is right to me. Perhaps it's something with the rest of your code.

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<table style="border-top: 1px solid black;">
  <tr>
    <td>Text</td>
    <td>Text</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td background="images/image.jpg" colspan="2"></td>
  </tr>
</table>

That should work unless you sliced the image, in which case you would just remove the 'colspan="2" '. Hope that helps!

Do you have a link?

No... the page isn't uploaded yet. It's actually a page I'm creating for someone--and online 'diary.' She wont give me permission to post the link even if I did upload it.

I'll see if I can make a skeleton page at some point with little to no content so you can see how it's laid out. Thing is, it's a template I use for most of my pages---and I've never had this problem crop up before.

Sounds like maybe just a typo somewhere, unclosed tag or something. You might run it through HTML Tidy or something like that to check.

Yeah.. I keep thinking that, too, although for the life of me I can't find the problem! lol I've built way more complicated pages than this so it baffles me. lol

Thanks.