Table border thickness

[frequencypro]

On the PowWeb User Help site (link (http://help.powweb.com)), the border on the tables are very thin, I tried it, setting the border size to 1, and they're still not as thin as the ones on the help site, how do I get them that thin?

[alphadesk]

frequencypro,

Try someting like this and see what you get.

<td width="100%" style="border: 1 ridge #000000">

The thickness of the border appearance will also be affected by table background and forground color.

[frequencypro]

I studied the coding on the help site, I figured it out.

They used an inline table with bgcolors for each individual cell so that the spacing between the cells would have the bgcolor of the first table. Sounds confusing, but it's hard to explain...

[MannInc]

Nested tables were what I used. Setting a table to have a border doesn't work under Netscape 4.7+ and older versions :) I'm not sure about Netscape 6.

[rainbore]

Netscape 4 did not support the
style attribute "border", but the new versions (6.x and 7.x) based on the W3C Document Object Model do. Netscape 4, of course, did support the BORDER attribute of the TABLE tag.
Many people created attractive borders
with simple HTML by nestng TABLEs,
which pretty much elminated problems
with cross-browser support.

Whatever side you find yourself on in
the browser wars, it seems to me anyone who designs with DHTML and CSS needs to support the newest versions of Netscape. AOL appears on the verge of incorporating it into their software, and their subsidiary service CompuServe is sure to be close behind. That's a *lot* of users. I wouldn't blame anyone for abandoning pre-6.0 versions of Netscape, but the user mix seems destined to change dramatically.

I've always been a Netscape partisan. I prefer Netscape's interface and feature set - especially the built-in JavaScript debugger, but my computer developed compatibility problems with NS6 (I installed something it didn't like, sigh!) and it was clunky on my under-powered system anyway, so I hadn't been doing anything with it. I've been playing with the 7.01 beta for a couple of weeks now and really like it. Its fast, stable, and has a rich new feature set. For developers, there's a lot to like. First, it is far more compatible with MSIE. Throw in the excellent support in Netscape's Developer areas, w3c.org, and Mozilla.org and you've got a nice mix.

Richard L. Trethewey
www.rainbo.net