How Exactly Do You Make Link for <td background> Images?

[Mostjolly]

I've made mine: <TD BACKGROUND="/images/header.png" a href="www.EXAMPLE.com" WIDTH="100%">

Shouldn't the corresponding codes be working as link?

[BirdOPrey5]

You can't link a background image with pure HTML...

This explains a CSS trick to do it:
http://xavisys.com/css-trick-turning-a-background-image-into-a-clickable-link/

but I never tried myself.