Cell background colors are not showing in preview - help? - DW4

Question

Hi,
I created a horizontal table for my menu bar, and gave each cell a different color by creating a separate class for each with background image - image is a block of color created in Photoshop. In design mode they look they way I want, but in preview (Safari) the colors don't show up at all - the whole area is gray, and all I see is the text for each cell. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Alternatively, is there a better way I can set this up to have different colors for each button?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Here is the HTML code, and the CSS code for the menu bar follows: 
     ul.MenuBarHorizontal           
></style><style type="text/css"><!body {     background-color: #FFF;     font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}-->
    h1.  
     ul.MenuBarVertical          
[about | MS_about.html]
[fiction | MS_fiction.html]
[dramatic work | MS_dramaticwork.html]
[arts | MS_arts.html]
[contact | MS_contact.html]
[blog | MS_blog.html]
<!-- end #header ><div id="mainContent"><p> </p><table width="950" border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="12">        <tr>          <td width="106"><p> </p></td>          <td width="766"><p> </p>            <p>Miriam Seidel is a writer, critic and curator whose work is informed by her background in art, music and dance. </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p>          <p> </p></td>        </tr>        <tr>          <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><p>c Miriam Seidel 2011 all rights reserved</p></td>        </tr>    </table><script type="text/javascript"><!var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", );var MenuBar2 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar2", );var MenuBar3 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar3", );//></script></body>     <! end #mainContent --></div></html> 
CSS CODE:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */ 
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding /ul.MenuBarHorizontal/ Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html /ul.MenuBarActive{     z-index: 1000;     font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;     font-size: medium;     color: #FFF;     background-color: #FFCC99;     background-repeat: no-repeat;     left: auto;     top: auto;     right: auto;     bottom: auto;}/ Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width /ul.MenuBarHorizontal li/ Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) /ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul/ Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item /ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible/ Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent /ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li/ Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) /ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul/ Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible 
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides /ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul/ Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration /ul.MenuBarHorizontal a/ Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text /ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus{     background-color: #6C9;     color: #999;     font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;     font-size: medium;     font-style: normal;     line-height: normal;     font-weight: normal;     font-variant: normal;     text-decoration: none;     text-align: center;     vertical-align: middle;     height: 50px;     width: 115px;}/ Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible{     background-color: #FFCC99;     color: #FFF;     font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;     text-decoration: none;     font-size: medium;}
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) /ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu{     background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif);     background-repeat: no-repeat;     background-position: 95% 50%;     text-align: center;}/ Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) /ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu{     background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);     background-repeat: no-repeat;     background-position: 95% 50%;}/ Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) /ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover{     background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);     background-repeat: no-repeat;     background-position: 95% 50%;}/ Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover{     background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);     background-repeat: no-repeat;     background-position: 95% 50%;}
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe /ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe/ HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */@media screen, projection{     ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE     {          display: inline;          f\loat: left;          background: #FFF; 
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:30:46 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: cell background colors are not showing in preview - help? - DW4 
NEED to see the code.
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