Dreamweaver border thickness 1 - still to thick!! Suggestions welcome!

[debbiedavison]

I've created a table in Dreamweaver and set to lowest setting of border thickness i.e 1 but the lines are still too thick for the look I want. I found a site that answers this exact question (experts-exchange.com) but you've got to sign up for an account costing money to see the answer! Any ideas would be much appreciated as I've searched the net and found no answers but sure there is a way to do it as lots of sites have much thinner lines in their tables! Any suggestions woudl be much appreciated as this problem has had me stumpted for a while now so I'm completing other areas so the site but now I'm nearing completion I need to solve it asap.. thanks!

 

[vacunita]

You'll need CSS.

instead of setting the border like:

<table border="1"...>

Try something like:

<table style="border:1px solid black;"...>

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[debbiedavison]

Almost there! thats given me a border round the entire table at the thickness I'm looking for, any ideas how to make that border each cell? Thanks for your help

 

[vacunita]

Again CSS.

But you'll need to define the CSS for the TD element.

I suggest you google for CSS tutorials so you understand how it works, then you can just add a style block in the header of your page that has:

<header>..
<style ...>

td{
border:1px solid black;
}

</style>

</header>

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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[debbiedavison]

Thanks very much, all sorted!

 

[clivehenderson]

Hi
I use css to overcome this annoying problem
It allows very thin borders.
Regards
Clive