Table Borders

[Carolina]

I'll try to make this understandable.

I've added a table of 1 row, 1 column. Inside that table (nested?), I added a table that is 3 rows. I did this because I wanted a border around the entire thing, but not each individual cell.

I added text in the top row. I added text in the second row. Then I split the third row, to have a 2 column bulleted list.

Now I can't seem to get a border around the entire outer edge. Is it because I split that 3rd row? I had it earlier, but then I was messing around, changing some things, and now I can't get it again. I've been in the source code, and whenever I add the tag for bordercolor, Dreamweaver tells me it's invalid or invalidly nested, or not closed.

Any ideas?

[Max]

Lynn,

I'm sure I could fix it if you posted the code. Make sure all the table, row and cell tags are closed.

If the HTML is correct you can find the parent one-cell table and insert style into the opening tag like this:

<table style="border: 1px solid #003366">

this should give you 1 pixel wide border around the whole thing. You won't see the border only in case of open table tag somewhere in the middle.

[Carolina]

Thanks Max.

Here's the code I'm trying to (stubbornly) use currently in Dreamweaver:

<table width="100%" border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" bordercolor="669966">

I'll try your tag in a minute.

[Carolina]

Nope. Your code doesn't work either. In fact, when I tried it, DW added a </table> tag immediately after.

Looks like the row of code that I posted above is invalid. Either it's overlapping, or unclosed, and I can't figure out which.

[Carolina]

Hooray!! I found it! The one row table wasn't closed at the bottom! Yea yea yea. I knew it was there somewhere, but I had looked at it for too long the other day to find it.

Thanks for the help Max.

[Max]

No problem Lynn