a me questo sembra funzionare

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
table a {
display: block;
width: 100%; height: 100%;
color: #000;
text-decoration:none
}
.ciao:hover {
text-decoration:none;

}


</style>
</head>
<body>
pippo



<table border="">

<tr height="">
<td width="">pappa</td>
</tr>

</table>


</body>
</html>