title: CSS text color in table cells
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>So I have some spans, for instance here is yellow on black...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span style="text-color: #ffff00; background-color: #000000;"&gt;text-to-color&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>HTML validator says I'm not making any horrible errors.</p>
  
  <p>I'm confused. Or perhaps bemused.</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing here?</p>