1. Background images
<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
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<td background="images/image.gif">background images</td>
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</table>
2. Keep the content (Paragraphs) at top of the table
<table width="630" height="107" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<td align="left" valign="top"> left top </td>
</tr>
</table>
3. Try this code hope this help you
<table width="630" height="107" border="1" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0">
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<td align="center" valign="top"> New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India will grow at more than 8.5 percent this fiscal but if the European financial crisis spreads it will affect the domestic economy.
Mukherjee emphasised the resilience of the Indian economy and said: "If Euro zone crisis is restricted to few countries, then it will not have much of an impact on us. But if it spreads to other countries then I don't know what may happen."
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4. If you will correct path it will show, or try different format like .jpg , gif etc
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Jul 20, 2010