<LAYER BGCOLOR="tan">
In Netscape Navigator, these lines should be colored tan. 
They should be white in Netscape 6 and IE.
</LAYER>

Here is the rendering of this element in your browser:

In Netscape Navigator, these lines should be colored tan. They should be white in Netscape 6 and IE.

The line above should be tan in Netscape Navigator. It should have a white background in Internet Explorer because IE silently ignores the LAYER tag. Similarly, Netscape 6 does not support this tag and the line above should have a white background in Netscape 6.

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