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Asked: 2026-06-02T02:43:16+00:00

I was creating a simple testpage for myself, in which I’ve encountered a surprising

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I was creating a simple testpage for myself, in which I’ve encountered a surprising bug. Firefox and chrome fail to correctly parse “rgb” coloring attribute. I know using “bg_color” is deprecated and I know it’s always better to use “#code” but now I’m wondering what’s causing this problem. I’ve also checked and apparently IE doesn’t have such a bug. or maybe I’m doing something wrong? this code will result in dark blue bg color in chrome and FF.

<html>
<body>

<table border="1">
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#FF0000">January</td>
    <td bgcolor="rgb(0,255,0)">$100</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>

sidenote: browsers should support rgb as written in w3school

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  1. Editorial Team

    HTML attributes are not the same thing as CSS. The rgb() notation is CSS-only, and doesn’t work in bgcolor or color attributes.

    You can use CSS in an attribute, however – specifically the style attribute, if you don’t want to generate stylesheets:

    <td style="background-color: rgb(0,255,0)">
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