<table>
<tr>
<td style=“border: 1px solid black;”>
<br>
<p><font size=“5”><i><b>“I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings. Take the time to spend it with loved ones, and remember they are the real treasures in your life…”</p>
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; background: #def;">
<br>
<p><font size="5"><i><b>"I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings. Take the time to spend it with loved ones, and remember they are the real treasures in your life...."</p>
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Here’s a complete example to play with. It’ll show you how to achieve the same result, using different approaches… and even w/o using tables You’ll notice in the right way and w/o tables I’ve added a little left and right padding.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en"><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Form</title>
<style type="text/css">
#thanks {
border:1px solid black;
font-size:1.5em;
font-style:italic;
font-weight:bold;
background:#def;
padding: 1.5em .5em;
}
</style>
</head><body>
<h1>Tables style</h1>
<h2>The right way</h2>
<table id="thanks">
<tr>
<td cellpadding="0">"I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings. Take the time to spend it with loved ones, and remember they are the real treasures in your life...."
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>The old way</h2>
<table>
<tr>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; background: #def;">
<br>
<p><font size="5"><i><b>"I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings. Take the time to spend it with loved ones, and remember they are the real treasures in your life...."</p>
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>W/o Tables</h2>
<p id="thanks">"I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings. Take the time to spend it with loved ones, and remember they are the real treasures in your life...."</p>
</body></html>
and if you want to add the background color to the whole table then just use
<table width=“200” border=“1” bgcolor=“#00FF00”>
<tr><td></td>
</tr>
</table>