taff — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:32:15 +0000

Doh. Sorry Megan. I just reread your post and see what you mean.

taff — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:31:11 +0000

Nope. not quite what I mean.

I am doing exactly what you describe and giving the outer table a border/colour in order to create a box effect.

Looks fine in IE. In Netscape 4.72, there is a slight bevel to the border that doesn't exist in IE.

I don't have this uploaded for you to look at but I have the exact same issue on my main site:

sitesunseen.com

Megan — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:25:05 +0000

Not in NS 4.x no. What you have to do is use a work around.

There are two ways to do this:

1. Nest your table within a slightly larger table with a background colour, then add cellspacing to your content table so the background shows.

<table border=0 bgcolor="whatever">
<tr><td>
	<table border=0 cellspacing=1 bgcolor="white">
	<tr><td>
		This is your content
	</td></tr>
	</table>
</td></tr>
</table>

2. Create a border using thin table cells with background colours containing transparent gif's. This can get complicated, but it does allow you to add a border selectively to some edges but not others.