Your right, I always go there with IE, but since you pointed it out, I checked also in Firefox and there isn't. I did find code to do it, but it most only work in IE.
I added the following to the table tag
style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#FFFFFF', startColorstr='#AACCFF', gradientType='0');
Since I displaying the web page on a vfp form using the wecbcontrol this will work for me.
Another MS fuctionality only I guess.
Kirk