Table background doesn't show

? Enter the code below in a text widget and all you see is the “Hi There”.
? The image shows fine in an image tag by itself, it disappears when you declare it a background image.
? The table and image display fine outside of WP.
? I created a table with background in TinyMCEadvanced and found that it doesn’t work there either.

TinyMCEadvanced wrote the same code I did:

<table style=”background-image: url(‘myURL’);” border=”0″>
<tr>
<td> Hi There</td>
</tr>
</table>

but it doesn’t work.

A resolution would be most gratefully appreciated.

Thanks