HTML/CSS/Background Attributes/bgcolor
"bgcolor" defines the background color
<HTML>
<head>
<Title>Example For bgcolor</Title>
</head>
<BODY>
<table bgcolor="red">
<col span="2" bgcolor="blue">
<col bgcolor="green">
<tr>
<td>table cell</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</BODY>
</HTML>