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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 26, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076 "2003-01-26T19:17:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:**  [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/1 "2003-01-26T19:17:34Z")
Is it possible to make a table in HTML that has a line along one side of the table? For example the left, bottom and right side of the table will have no visible border but the top side will have a 1px #000000 line for its breadth.
I’m assuming such a beast would be done with style sheets. Will this be rendered correctly by all browsers, save Netscape 4.7\* or would this convention be particular to a single browser like IE?
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**Author:**  [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/2 "2003-01-26T19:26:21Z")
Oh yes, is it possible to add justification to text in HTML or does one have to have ragged line breaks?
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**Author:**  [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/3 "2003-01-26T19:28:41Z")
Try something like :
```auto
```
Works in IE, but probably not in Netscape (I don’t have 4.7 handy).
A more compatible option might be to insert a 1pixel wide black cell at the left of the table, spanned across the rows.
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**Author:**  [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/4 "2003-01-26T19:29:03Z")
In the stylesheet:
```auto
table#foo {
border-top : 1px #000 solid; }
```
In the body:
```auto
```
Now that I think about it, you might have to do it with individual cells. In that case, make it td#foo instead of table#foo, and apply the id property to the cells on the first row of the table.
It should work in IE, Gecko, Opera, and Khtml, afaik.
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**Author:**  [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/5 "2003-01-26T19:33:40Z")
You can also justify text with the text-align CSS attribute.
```auto
**Author:**  [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/6 "2003-01-26T19:40:26Z")
As for justification, theres the text-align : justify; property. You have to use it with block level elements, ie, \, \, \, etc.
It doesn’t work well in Navigator 4, but then again, nothing does.
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**Author:**  [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/7 "2003-01-26T19:42:58Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Armilla \*
> \*\*You can also justify text with the text-align CSS attribute.
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> ```auto
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**Author:**  [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/8 "2003-01-26T19:46:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by black455 \*
> \*\*It won’t work in a span, which is a line level element. You’ll need to use a div. \*\*
Works for me.
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**Author:**  [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/9 "2003-01-26T19:48:53Z")
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Jusified text in here.
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This text inherits its alignment from the parent element.
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Right-jusified text in here.
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If you want your whole page justified, I suggest making it part of the body tag, and letting everything inherit:
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**Author:**  [@mazzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazzer)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-css-tables-question/151076/10 "2003-01-26T21:14:56Z")
If you want something more brower-independent, you can go without style sheets altogether.
```auto
```
You will have to adjust your colspan according to how many columns you have. Not elegant, but that’s how it used to be done.
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