As a followup to this question on absolute positioning within a table cell, I\'m trying to get something working in Firefox. Once again, I\'m about 95% there, and there\'s
Are you just trying to get the backrground to match the same colour? and not alignment, then you can use a background image in css to give the same effect, cos FF does not render the element to 100% inside a container. If the container is set on auto height, then the child will be set to auto too. The makes the rendering faster.
So the best bet would be a css background image.