Gradient as a Table Background Works, but Color is Wrong

Question

Hi:
I've created gradients in Web pages as well as in tables in
Web pages, but I can't seem to get it to work properly in WebHelp.
I can get the gradient to display in a table, but the colors are
not right--it is dark blue to black (close to my skin colors?); the
color should have been pale grey to white. I want to put the
gradient in the page header or in the page header table. Either
will work for me. I don't want the whole page to have a gradient,
only the header.
After entering the code in Truecode, after I save the file
and go back and look at the page, the color delimeters are gone!
The rest of the code is there. Weird.
Robohelp keeps everything in the statement up to
"Microsoft.Gradient" and discards the rest consisting of
(endColorstr='#EEEEEE', startColorstr='#FFFFFF',
gradientType='0');" which is what determines the colors. RoboHelp
also as changes the single quotes and adds spaces.
Here is the code I used, after the last !. Any suggestions
would be welcome.
!===!<p>Gradient Table Example</p>
</p>
<table border="1" width="100%" id="table1">
<tr>
<table
style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#EEEEEE',
startColorstr='#FFFFFF', gradientType='0');"</style
width="1036">
<td>Table is here.
<p> </td>
</tr>
</table>
Regards,
Diana

Answer 1

Hi Diane.
Here's more of a workaround solution... There could be those
more technically savvy than myself willing to chime in.
This could just be RoboHelp TrueCode's special little way of
saying "I don't
think so!"
I'd suggest modifying everything that you need to in WYSIWYG,
generate, and then go to where your HTML files are (that you want
to add the gradients to), and then add the gradient code in
Notepad.
Then don't go back into that file with WYSIWYG in RoboHelp!
Otherwise chances are good that RoboHelp will get its fingers in
there and mess your code up again.