Dreamweaver - Table border help please.

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Table border help please.

chris

2004-04-21, 2:44 pm

Using Dreamweaver MX, suddenly if I select a table and choose a border
of 1 pixel I get a double line all around the table.
TIA,
Chris.

DiMa - TMM

2004-04-21, 2:45 pm

chris wrote:
> Using Dreamweaver MX, suddenly if I select a table and choose a border
> of 1 pixel I get a double line all around the table.
> TIA,
> Chris.

It's not sudden, it's cellspacing + html styling. That's just how table borders
are rendered when you do it that way. It's not a double line, it's just a line
which seems double because you have cellspacing.

If you want a single pixel outline of your table only, use CSS (which you
should have used in the first place...html styling is deprecated).

In the head of your page (or better yet in an attached style sheet with out
style tag and comments):

<style type="text/css">
<!--
..tblBorder /* or something more general */
border: 1px solid #000000; /* Choose your own color and style */
}

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David Stiller

2004-04-21, 2:46 pm

You'll have to add "class='tblBorder'" to your <table> tag, but I
support DiMa's take on it. :)

"dot" styles (like .tblBorder) are called classes (sometimes "custom
classes") and apply specifically to HTML tags that have a class attribute
set to that style's name, only without the dot, like <table
class="tblBorder">...</table>. Styles without the dot are called elements
and refer to their namesake HTML tag.

So if it suits your needs, you can make *all* tables have custom styling
by substituting "table" for DiMa's ".tblBorder" in the example she provided,
and then you wouldn't have to add the class attribute.

Like ...

table {
border: 1px solid #000000;
}

David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

> In the head of your page (or better yet in an attached style sheet with
out
> style tag and comments):
>
> <style type="text/css">
> <!--
> .tblBorder /* or something more general */
> border: 1px solid #000000; /* Choose your own color and style */
> }

Nadia

2004-04-21, 2:48 pm

Chris,
See if this helps :
http://www.dreamweaverresources.com...tableborder.htm

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"chris" <cgs@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:c5m6p3$j82$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Using Dreamweaver MX, suddenly if I select a table and choose a border
> of 1 pixel I get a double line all around the table.
> TIA,
> Chris.
>

DiMa - TMM

2004-04-21, 2:53 pm

David Stiller wrote:
> You'll have to add "class='tblBorder'" to your <table> tag, but I
> support DiMa's take on it. :)

Thanks (again!) for finishing my post for me :) I'm not on top form lately, eh?
;)

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