Background 
  Image in a Cell:
  
  TABLE:
you can use 
  an image to fill the background of a table cell with the BACKGROUND 
  tag in the <td> tags. It is a good idea to use a background color to match 
  the image while it is loading in as well. 
   <td 
  background="image.gif" bgcolor="green">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
<html>
  <head>
  <title>table</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  </head>
  <body>
  <table width="75%" border="1">
  <tr>
  <td 
  background="grass.gif" bgcolor="green">THIS 
  IS RED.</td>
  <td>THIS IS BLUE.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td> </td>
  <td> </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  </body>
  </html>