In your peace of code you are trying to assign the value "blue" of the
img tag to the backgroundColor of the object "color". I asume that
somewhere else in your html you have an object that is called "color". 
I have a few remarks:
-It is not wise to name an object with a reserved word (color)
-Officially the image object does not have a value property
-The <td> does not have a value property either (see your last sentence)
So what you try to do is not possible

Regards,

Gerhard Wentink
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: True2ViSioN@a... [mailto:True2ViSioN@a...] 
>Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:51 PM
>To: javascript
>Subject: [javascript] RE:few little problems
>
>
>ok thanks all for your help but for the table Q here it is 
>beter explained
>
><td bgcolor="Blue" title="Blue"><img value="blue" width="12" 
>height="12" 
>onclick="color.style.backgroundColor=this.value;"></td>
>
>i use that code but i dont want to use that in every td is 
>there away to put 
>the onclick
>in the table and have it get that value from the td?
>
>
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