In the lower frame is a fairly complete list of table tags. There are several tags for tables that Microsoft Internet Explorer supports that Netscape Navigator doesn't:

Below are examples.

ALIGN IMAGES

Here's some text.

Here's the code for the table above:

Here's some text.

Here's the code for the table above:

<TABLE BORDER="10" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BORDERCOLOR="#FF0000">
<CAPTION>BORDERCOLORLIGHT <TR>
<TD>FIRST <TD>SECOND </TR>
<TR>
<TD>THIRD <TD>FOURTH </TR>
</TABLE>

Notice which sides of the table appeared shaded in color on this and the following example.

Here's the code for the table above:
<TABLE BORDER="10" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FF0000">
<CAPTION>BORDERCOLORLIGHT <TR>
<TD>FIRST <TD>SECOND </TR>
<TR>
<TD>THIRD <TD>FOURTH </TR>
</TABLE>

Here's the code for the table above:
<TABLE BORDER="10" CELLPADDING="2" BORDERCOLORDARK="#FF0000">
<CAPTION CELLSPACING="0" >BORDERCOLORLIGHT <TR>
<TD>FIRST <TD>SECOND </TR>
<TR>
<TD>THIRD <TD>FOURTH </TR>
</TABLE>

In the following example you'll note that I didn't use a caption.  Because the caption is part of the table, the background image would "bleed" outside the table and behind the caption.  In this case, I simply centered the word "BACKGROUND" over the table. See my HTML page for more info on centering.
Background images are only supported in Internet Explorer and Netscape 4+.

BACKGROUND

Here's the code for the table above:
<TABLE BORDER="10" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" BACKGROUND="wrldbkgrnd.gif">
<TR>
<TD>FIRST <TD>SECOND </TR>
<TR>
<TD>THIRD <TD>FOURTH </TR>
</TABLE>

In order to get a bordercolor to show in a table in Netscape, you have to use BGCOLOR in your BODY statement and use a BACKGROUND image on your page.  Then the BGCOLOR of the page will show through on the table border contrasting with the background image.  You can use a small .gif of a solid color as your page background.

CELL BACKGROUND COLORS
NOT SUPPORTED BY OLDER BROWSERS

<TABLE BORDER="10" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0">
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="#00BDBD">FIRST <TD BGCOLOR="#87cefa">SECOND </TR>
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="#3cb371">THIRD <TD BGCOLOR="#ffa07a">FOURTH </TR>
</TABLE>

CELL BACKGROUND COLORS AND NO TABLE BORDERS
This is handy for making a simple toolbar. Just make the text in the table cells into links.
[see mine below]

<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2">
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="#00BDBD">FIRST <TD BGCOLOR="#87cefa">SECOND </TR>
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="#3cb371">THIRD <TD BGCOLOR="#ffa07a">FOURTH </TR>
</TABLE>

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