I am stumped- background same as text error

[Topboss]

I hope someone can help me with this as I am stumped.
I am in the process of converting http://www.hollywoodslots.co.za from Front Page to Dreamweaver.
I use a software called Web CEO which helps me pick up errors on the pages.
Here is my problem:
On this page ( and all others that are already converted to Dreamweaver ) - http://www.hollywoodslots.co.za/capt...e_pro_slot.htm
I keep getting an error message saying that my text is the same colour as my background.
I have tried changing the main background and text link colours to no avail and have pinpointed it down to the problem of the black background within my table. i.e when I change the background colour in the table - the error goes away or if I remove the text completely. If I just change the colour of the text - the error is still there.
As you will see - my text is white and the table background is black. There is also no hidden text, so why would I be getting this error? Can anybody throw some light on this as I have spent a few hours on it and am tearing my hair out!!

[Renee]

Hey Heather

Could it have something to do with your css?

In dreamweaver if you change things within the GUI at the bottom it adds the css at the top of the page rather than in any included CSS files.. It could be conflicting somewhere because of that?

[ck8795]

I ran it through http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/ which searches for hidden text and it came up empty as well. Also removed your css sheet and again nothing. I would say your tool is giving you a false positive if anything.

Double checked using this and after removing images, css rules and displaying links there is nothing that stands out

http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

Edit - Ran your css sheet at W3C

http://xxx.jigsaw.w3.org/css-validat...ng=en#warnings

[Topboss]

Thanks to both Renee and Kaus for your responses.
I really appreciate it.
Renee - I also initially thought it could be the css and tried changing it - same result.
Kaus, Thanks for going to the effort to check it for me. I had a sneaky feeling I was getting a false report and now that you have double checked on quite a few programs - I think I am going to leave it and not worry about it.
Luckily the site seems to be appearing for many words in google so it hasn't been banned or anything.
Thanks again guys

[Renee]

No probs Heather.

I didn't think that'd be it due to hierarchy with CSS, but if I didn't suggest it, it probably would have been the case

Glad you got it sorted anyway

[universal4]

Heather, this could actually be an eronious error, but if one program sees it as hiddent text the engines could too.

What could be happening is that it sees the text color as the same color as a background somewhere else on the page and thus thinks that the text is hidden.

I am not sure what the best workaround for this would be, but if I have a chance later I will take a look at iot if you haven't conquered it....

Rick
Universal4

[Topboss]

Thanks Rick. That is a bit of a concern because it is one of my best performing sites, so I can't afford for it to be banned in the search engines.
I also thought that maybe there was just one or 2 words that may have got hidden along the way, so I actually removed each word seperately and tested it again and then removed all of the text and checked the source code to ensure it was basically blank. Still no joy.
This one really does have me stumped. I am really hoping it is just a problem with the software checker, but like you said - there may be a search engine that picks up the same thing......