Unfortunately, Netscape 4.7x (Windows) renders your table cells with a black background.

There may be a couple of tricks that might help.

• Consider embedding CSS into the content instead of using an external stylesheet (which shouldn't be too difficult as you're using PHP).

  (Update: ichimunki raises a good point. Sadly, Netscape 4.7 has a bug regarding linked stylesheets. This is only one reason why I occasionally rant about non-compliant browsers.)

• Make sure you define rules for <TD>, <TH>, and <TR>.

• Make sure you use and close your <P> tags.

Note sure if you've seen this site, but it contains a lot of CSS related information, including a page documenting many of the most egregious problems.

Hope this helps...

--f

P.S. As far using CSS and cookies go, I'm with Blue: Go for it.

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