title: HTML/CSS gradient background on a table
body: <p>I made this simple navigation bar with a gradient background.</p>
  
  <p>as you can see, it has a gradient background.  It is nothing fancy, just used a photoshop gradient masked by the table.  I made the photoshop version just to show my design, and now I am having trouble recreating it online.  How do I make an HTML table have this gradient as it's background?</p>
  
  <p>I read some answers to similar questions, but they had more complex answers than I am looking for.  I do not need to tile it, I just want to set the background of my table to this gradient. (gradient generated on the spot or a repeated image, no preference)</p>