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July 8th, 2002, 06:47 AM

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Tables with 1px borders

Newbie question:

How can I make HTML tables with 1px borders? Like the tables for this forum?

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July 8th, 2002, 07:35 AM

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You could use CSS, which is the easiest and most flexible way, but unfortunately not all browsers support this too well (especially the old browsers).

To be sure your page is displayed correctly you have to use tables, but I'm not sure which one of these was the most compatible way.. maybe someone else does...

PHP Code:


		
			
<table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000">

<tr>

    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Test</td>

</tr>

</table>

PHP Code:


		
			
<table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td>



<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

    <tr>

        <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Test</td>

    </tr>

</table>



</td></tr></table>

Yeah, I know it isn't PHP, but I like the colors..

And in case you'd like to know the CSS way (which could be applied to almost any html-tag that's a "box"):

PHP Code:


		
			
<table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="border: 1px solid #000000;">

<tr>

    <td></td>

</tr>

</table>

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July 8th, 2002, 04:24 PM

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Those work...

All of Harvard's ideas work. However, the first one would (I think) load the fastest as there isn't as many tables for the browser to read.

If you know that the majority of your audience will be using Internet Explorer (this MAY work in Netscape) use:

PHP Code:


		
			
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" bordercolor="#000000">

<tr>

    <td>Hey there!</td>

</tr>

</table>

(Just like Harvard, I like the colors!

)

You could also remove the bordercolor="#000000" attribute and it would kind of look black...

Hope that helps
-Corbb

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July 8th, 2002, 07:30 PM

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I think WebGuy's technique makes a border wider then 1px. Thanks for the help guys.

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