diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 0a44f4cced..3ca0a37204 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ 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 7f965d7e0c..6da4e08ec2 100644
--- a/src/html/m_tables.cpp
+++ b/src/html/m_tables.cpp
@@ -136,7 +136,11 @@ 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