I haven't done much with HTML in Crystal Reports, but I'll have to research it this weekend. There is more interest in it than I realized.

When you say you want to show a table, are you talking about <TABLE><TR><TD> tags or simulating a table by putting borders around each field. If you want to do borders, then you have control over the text color and background color using formulas. You could also put the table header at the top of each page by putting it in the Page Header section and putting a border around it to simulate the appearance of an HTML table.