Table Tip: Border Control

Want a border for your table, but don't want to use140. Make the background color whatever color you
thestandard border? Need a table cell outline? Here'swant as anoutline of the left cell.
how todo it.Make the cell color white, or another color you want
A SINGLE ROW, SINGLE COLUMN TABLEto use,and set the vertical alignment to top, and
Insert a table with one row and one column. Makehorizontal alignmentto center. Here's the
border equalzero. Set cellspacing to one. Settable:border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"
cellpadding to whatever youwant it to be.width="140"bgcolor="#008000">
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First, create a 600 pixel table with one row and twoYou will also need to embed another table in the right
columns.460 pixelcell and set the cellpadding to 3 or more to
We'll make the left column 140 pixels wide and theseparate the contentfrom the table cell border
rightcolumn 460 pixels. The left column will be used(included in the above example).
for anavigation panel.Use this technique to create a variety of table
Set: border = 0, cellspacing = 0, cellpadding = 0,configurations.
alignmentYou can even create a row of faux *buttons* for
= center.navigation withoutusing a graphic file.
Set: left column width = 140, vertical align = top,Tables are a great way to control the placement of
horizontalalign = center; right column width = 460,content in yourweb page. They can also be used to
vertical align = top,horizontal align = center.decorate or enhance the appearanceof your pages.
Now embed a table in the left column that is 140Go ahead and experiment! Have fun! Try different
pixels wide.colorcombinations. Don't forget that you can also
Set: border = 0, cellpadding = 3, cellspacing = 1, widthspecify the height oftables and cells as well as width.
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