Collapsing a Table Border

[jwade_m]

Even with the table border set to '0' you still get a small gap between cells. I know there is code to fix this. Does anyone know it?

[PR Design]

Cell-padding? Use css if you can though, much better.

[dannynosleeves]

I second the CSS comment. But if I can recall the days of tables, I do think PR is right about the cell padding.

[jwade_m]

I thought padding dealt with the area inside the table

[tommylogic]

• Table Width: This value determines how wide the table will appear in a browser window. It can be specified in a percentage or exact pixels.
• Border: This is the width of the border around each cell and the entire table in pixels.
• Cell Padding: This is space between a cell’s border and its contents measured in pixels.
• Cell Spacing: This is the number of pixels between each cell.

A funny side note.. I was looking through old Dreamweaver 4 documentation and I came across this:

Tables give the web designer control over the structure and layout of the web pages visitors see. Without tables web sites would not be the structured, efficient and dynamic information medium that they have become. In the past, using HTML to incorporate complex tables was a difficult at best. Fortunately, today we have better tools such as Dreamweaver that makes this once time-consuming task relatively easy.

[rossable]

[jwade_m]

Thanks for all of your comments.

[PR Design]

Is it bad that I don't know how to hand code a table? I mean from a basics point of view. I've never used them, so as a result I don't know the correct markup lol. Should I know?

[quintana]

Are you ever going to do work with tabular data?

[PR Design]

Well I don't know. If I do it will be a rarity, and if I do have to I can always read something about making them lol.