Help with HTML

Factual Questions
1

I created my home page as a table with headers & links to the sites I visit frequently. I used an old copy of Frontpage to make one table look like many separate tables by deleting the border color of the main table and adding a black border color to certain cells.

Like this:
<table border=“1” width=“100%” bordercolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width=“50%” bordercolor="#000000"> </td>
<td width=“23%”> </td>
<td width=“77%” bordercolor="#000000"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=“50%” bordercolor="#000000"> </td>
<td width=“23%”> </td>
<td width=“77%” bordercolor="#000000"> </td>
</tr>
</table>

It looks great in IE, but when I look at this same HTML in Mozilla I see a complete table with borders. How can I get the same effect in Mozilla?

Thanks,

Ivan

2

In your first line, try changing:

border=“1” to border=“0”

I haven’t done any html coding in a while, but I think that’s right - no guarantees though!

3

Use two tables as in this pseudo code:

<table 1 border white>
<tr>
<td>

<table 2 border black>
<tr>
<td>
content
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
content
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Also, don’t create web pages and view them in IE. Use Mozilla. If it works in Mozilla, it should work in IE. The reverse is seldom true.

4

Use CSS.

Instead of the BORDERCOLOR tag, replace each instance with this:

STYLE=“border:1px solid #000;”

5

I fiddled around with it for a bit and came up with this:
(It works in IE and Firefox)



<table border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#000000"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><tr><td>Test Data</td></tr></table></td>
<td width="23%"> </td>
<td width="77%" bgcolor="#000000"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><tr><td>Test Data</td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#000000"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><tr><td>Test Data</td></tr></table></td>
<td width="23%"> </td>
<td width="77%" bgcolor="#000000"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><tr><td>Test Data</td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
</table>
6

I like this one better than my own offering since it still uses only one table.
You have to set the border to “0” on the outer table, however.