>Bret;
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>This could be fun. Try the following. I left out the HR tag and get a line. What happens at your end? Seems like the HR tag takes over the height of the element and you have no control
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>Tom
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>< table>
>< tr>
>< td>Testing
>< /td>
>< /tr>
>< TR>
>< TD colspan="6" bgcolor="Blue" height="1">
>< /td>
>< /tr>
>< td>Testing
>< /td>
>< /table>

With >< TD colspan="6" bgcolor="Blue" height="1">>< /TD>
You get a thicker border between TRs nothing visual that is blue. So my guess is the HR has some default pad when put in a TD tag.