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Re: Bordered Table in Netscape 4.7

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From: Ali Naito
Date: Feb 10, 2003 1:12PM

we do this all the time... 2 nested tables...

table black background cellspacing 0, cellpadding 0, border 0
in the first td put your second table (the data table)
table no background color cellspacing 1(very thin lines) 2 or so should get
you what you're looking for, cellpadding whatever you like, border 0

you have to color in ALL tr or td's though. Even white/default ones.
and example can be found at:

http://southwest.ojp.gov/

-Ali Naito


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From: "Laurie Davis-Covin" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Bordered Table in Netscape 4.7


> I hear you!
> Did you see what Terence came up with?
>
> At 03:36 PM 2/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Laurie --
> >
> >Tables don't accept CSS styling very well or very consistently in
> >Netscape 4.7x. Before I understood this, I spent at least 40 hours on
> >the kind of problem you are working on here. Don't. Do. It.
> >
> >When I absolutely HAVE to have a certain look on a table, I use all
> >the bad old attribute controls, which work, but are not CSS, and
> >upset
> >the perfect coding people. And you cannot ever get rid of that ugly
> >bevel on table borders, which is truly painful.
> >
> >YOu could probably use some insane combination of divs with single
> >pixel borders and the table for the data, but it's perversely
> >complicated for such a simple purpose.
> >
> >The better answer is to tell this person that writing modern XHTML
> >and
> >CSS based pages means either 1) browser-switching to a lobotomized
> >version of your pages for Netscape, or 2) choosing not to care what
> >things look like in Netscape 4.7x. When one doesn't have the option
> >of
> >blowing off NN 4.7x, do #1. When you do, do #2.
> >
> >
> >Lori Kay Brown
> >User Interface Engineer
> >SiteScape, Inc.
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