Adding color to br
<p>I want to give <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> some color. but it is not getting applied</p>

<p>Here is the HTML</p>

<pre><code>&lt;br style="color:#EAEFF5" /&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>here is the screenshot. I want the white space to be colored</p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FJWWH.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FJWWH.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>

<pre><code>&lt;div style="background-color:#EAEFF5; width:100%;" style="border: 1px solid black; border-collapse:collapse;" cellpadding="5px" cellspacing="2px"&gt;
&lt;table  width="60%" cellpadding="5px" style="border: 1px solid black; border-collapse:collapse;"  cellspacing="1px" align="center"&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;th class="label" style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Courier New; text-align:center"&gt;
            Date
        &lt;/th&gt;
        &lt;th class="label" style="width: 7%; font-size: 120%; font-family: Courier New;text-align:center"&gt;
            Flat Status
        &lt;/th&gt;
        &lt;th class="label" style="width: 7%; font-size: 120%; font-family: Courier New;text-align:center"&gt;
            Comments
        &lt;/th&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td class="label" style="width: 7%; font-size: 120%; font-family: Courier New;text-align:center;"&gt;
            &lt;input type="text" runat="server" id="txtdate" style="width: 75px;"/&gt;
        &lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td class="label" style="width: 7%; font-size: 120%; font-family: Courier New;text-align:center;"&gt;
            &lt;%--&lt;input id="txtcomments" type="text" runat="server" style="width: 75px;" /&gt;--%&gt;

             &lt;select id="ddlflatstatus" style="width: auto" name="flatstatus" runat="server"&gt;
                &lt;option value="0"&gt;--- Select ---&lt;/option&gt;
            &lt;/select&gt;

        &lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td class="label" style="width: 7%; font-size: 120%; font-family: Courier New;text-align:center;"&gt;
            &lt;%--&lt;input id="txtstatusdet" type="text" runat="server" style="width: 75px;" /&gt;--%&gt;

             &lt;asp:TextBox ID="txtcomments" runat="server" Width="150" TextMode="MultiLine"&gt;&lt;/asp:TextBox&gt;

        &lt;/td&gt;

    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;br style="background-color:#EAEFF5" /&gt;
</code></pre>