diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index b2627a29e7..18d90526da 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ All (GUI):
 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
+- wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
 
 wxMSW:
 
diff --git a/src/html/m_tables.cpp b/src/html/m_tables.cpp
index 54f62b5d10..0209b50ded 100644
--- a/src/html/m_tables.cpp
+++ b/src/html/m_tables.cpp
@@ -137,7 +137,11 @@ wxHtmlTableCell::wxHtmlTableCell(wxHtmlContainerCell *parent, const wxHtmlTag& t
 
     /* scan params: */
     if (tag.HasParam(wxT("BGCOLOR")))
+    {
         tag.GetParamAsColour(wxT("BGCOLOR"), &m_tBkg);
+        if (m_tBkg.Ok())
+            SetBackgroundColour(m_tBkg);
+    }
     if (tag.HasParam(wxT("VALIGN")))
         m_tValign = tag.GetParam(wxT("VALIGN"));
     else