Suzanne — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:10:16 +0000

It collapses the borders.

Renegade — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:46:34 +0000

what does border-collapse: collapse; do?

Suzanne — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:30:18 +0000

Sounds like a great solution. Glad you solved it!

Cog — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:48:09 +0000

I don't have a URL because it is a template for my PHP class.

I fixed the problem by dumping cellspacing and used borders instead.
TABLE {
border-collapse: collapse;
}

TD, TH {
border-bottom: 1px solid #111111;
border-left: 1px solid #111111;
border-right: 1px solid #111111;
}

Suzanne — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:37:42 +0000

Do you have some code to offer? Preferably an url. Let's see what else is happening. Also, what browsers are having difficulty? All of them?

Cog — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:59:59 +0000

Sill,

TABLE {
border-collapse: collapse;
background-color: #111111;
}

/* The above two should stay wit table */

TD {
margin: 1px;
}

doesn't work. I'm running out of hair to pull

Suzanne — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:48:53 +0000

Because. you. need. to. set. the. style. for. the. td. element., not. the table. element.

Cog — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:03:55 +0000

Why doesn't the following:

TABLE {
border-collapse: collapse;
background-color: #111111;
margin: 1px;
}

look like:

Suzanne — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:41:29 +0000

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1997Oct/0069.html this isn't exactly a tutorial, but it does map between html and css.

Learning how to use contextual declarations will really help, as well.

Anyway, for cellpadding="10", use td {padding: 10px;} and for cellspacing="3", use td { margin: 3px; }, so for your example, you'd have to put the style="margin: 1px;" in every TD, best to put it in the stylesheet instead, where you can just do it once:

td { margin: 1px; }

Note: you'll have to likely use border-collapse: collapse; to get accurate results.

Busy — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:05:44 +0000

you can use a combination of margin:? and padding:? but your better off using a style sheet and setting the class or id in the table. note this isn't an universal method, the good old cellspacing is still best method.