CSS text color in table cells

Question

I have some (actually a lot) of tabular data. In HTML 3.2, I use HTML FONT tags to color the text within table cells (multiple colors in one cell at times) and it works fine.

Under HTML 4.01 strict, I can't (shouldn't) use FONT, because it's no longer supported. Supposed to use CSS, right? I can't use the CSS for the table cell though, because I have to account for multiple colors.

So I have some spans, for instance here is yellow on black...

<span style="text-color: #ffff00; background-color: #000000;">text-to-color</span>

However, the text appears with the page's text and background colors. Not the colors in the span. This is true in Firefox and Safari.

HTML validator says I'm not making any horrible errors.

I'm confused. Or perhaps bemused.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

The correct syntax is style="color:#ffff00;", not text-color.