Table Borders: The Basics
The most basic issue concerning table borders is if there should be any borders at all. That issue is settled with the
BORDER attribute to the
<TABLE ...> tag.
By default, tables do not have borders. For example, this code, which does not have any attributes in the <TABLE ...> tag, produces a table with no borders:
<TABLE>
<TR> <TD>watermelon</TD> <TD>grapes</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>peaches</TD> <TD>bananas</TD> </TR>
</TABLE>
which gives us
| watermelon | grapes |
| peaches | bananas |
To give the table borders we add the BORDER attribute to the <TABLE ...> tag:
<TABLE BORDER>
which gives us this table
| watermelon |
grapes |
| peaches |
bananas |
BORDER sets the width of the outer border. So, for example, this code creates a table with an outside border width of
10:
<TABLE BORDER=10>
which gives us this table
| watermelon |
grapes |
| peaches |
bananas |
Note that BORDER sets the width of the outside border. The width of the inside borders are set with CELLSPACING.
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