Where did you see that border-spacing applied? I just applied it to the new table (2px) but it had no effect./
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Livingston [mailto:tom...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 12:19 PM To: Angela French Cc: css-d (css-d@lists.css-discuss.org) Subject: Re: [css-d] table design woes Without looking too long, the one table that shows what you are after has border-spacing of 2px. The other has 0. HTH On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Angela French <afre...@sbctc.edu> wrote: > I have always styled tables with a background color and padding on the <td>s > so that the background color of the table looks like a border around each > cell. Here is an example on our current site: > http://www.sbctc.edu/general/policymanual/_a-policymanual_1.10.aspx . > > I'm trying to recreate this on a new site, but it's not working. I can't > figure out why. In this test I have set up the <td>s with the green > background just so I could see what's going on, but they will be a white > background in the end. The background color of the cells is not shrinking to > allow the background color of the table to show through and look like the > border. > > http://dev.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/policies-rules/policy-manual/1.10. > aspx > > Thanks for taking a look. > > > > > > > Angela French > Internet Specialist > State Board for Community and Technical Colleges > 360-704-4316 > afre...@sbctc.edu<mailto:afre...@sbctc.edu> > www.checkoutacollege.com<http://www.checkoutacollege.com> > www.sbctc.edu<http://www.sbctc.edu> > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- > http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Front End Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | medialogic.com #663399 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
