onmouseover cell color

quote problems?

<a target="I1" href="inc_opportunities_open_intel.aspx">
<td class="style7" onMouseover="this.bgColor='lightblue'" onMouseout="this.bgColor='white'" style="width: 75px;">open</td>
</a>

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HTH,
Dan

No error but no change in colors

<a target="I1" href="inc_opportunities_open_intel.aspx"><td class="style7" onMouseover="this.bgColor='lightblue'" onMouseout="this.bgColor='white'" style="width: 75px">open</td></a>

I think you need to use hex values. Tested this and it works:
<TR onMouseover="this.bgColor='#99AACC'" onMouseout="this.bgColor='#FFFFFF'">

no change
<a target="I1" href="inc_opportunities_open_intel.aspx"><td class="style7" onMouseover="this.bgColor='#99AACC'" onMouseout="this.bgColor='#FFFFFF'" style="width: 75px">open</td></a>

I see  a couple of problems.

Wrapping a <td> in an <a> element is not a good idea. Rather put your <a> inside the <td> make it a block element and the height and width you want and then use CSS :hover to change the cell.

a {
	width: 75px;
}
a:hover {
	background: lightblue;
}

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HTML

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <a href="">one</a>
    </td>
    ...
  </tr>
  ...

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++ on Julian's solution. It's the way it's been done for the past 7 years or so.

But, if you're stuck on archaic systems behind corporate rules, you might need to do it old style.
If you can tell us the browser you're using to test your code, we could be of more assistance.

Dan

Browser is IE11

On the second option you have to mouse over the word to click it, I want users to be able to click the box instead which is why we went the other route.

Your original code works fine. The only way to break it is if the TD is not part of a table...
http://jsfiddle.net/GaryC123/5L5Pw/

Tho everything Julian says still holds true.

What's the doctype? bgcolor is not supported in HTML5 although I'd be surprised if IE11 didn't support it anyway.

excellent thanks