### Author:  [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-q-why-do-some-thumbnails-have-a-border-and-others-dont/82826/1 "2001-09-20T16:55:42Z")
I’m really sorry if this is a dumb question, but its got me stumped.
On [this](http://www.angelfire.com/80s/tonycarey/photos.html) page of my rinky-dink little site I have a bunch of thumbnails that are links to pages where the full sized image is. For some reason, some of the thumbs have a border around them and others don’t. I can’t seem to figure out why, and I’m worried that the borders/lack of borders makes it appear that only some of the pics are links. They are _all_ links.
I made this page using Netscape Composer. I tried checking the link/image properties to see what the difference is between the bordered/non-bordered, but I can’t see any. All the thumbs were made using the same program : Easy Thumbnails v1.0. On preview, none have borders. The files on my comp have no borders. But the some on the webpage do. 😕
Could anyone give me ideas about why this happened? Or how I can change it?
Thank you,
bunnymom
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### Author:  [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-q-why-do-some-thumbnails-have-a-border-and-others-dont/82826/2 "2001-09-20T17:06:14Z")
Here’s the HTML behind one of your photos with a border:
\\
\ (bolding mine)
Notice anything?
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### Author:  [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-q-why-do-some-thumbnails-have-a-border-and-others-dont/82826/3 "2001-09-20T17:11:01Z")
Sorry, only answered half your question. I’m not sure how to do it in Composer, but if you open your HTML file in a text editor and delete all instances of **BORDER=0** , then all your photos should have borders (I think the default is BORDER=1).
Good luck!
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-q-why-do-some-thumbnails-have-a-border-and-others-dont/82826/4 "2001-09-20T17:36:55Z")
pcubed is correct, and I just wanted to clarify that the problem you are having is a HTML one, not a image one. Its not that the images themselves have borders, its that the HTML code that’s formating the display is being told to place borders around them.
From a style point of view, I’d reccomend setting ALL the borders to equal “0”. People generally assume that a thumbnail is a link to a larger image, and the action of the cursor arrow changing to a hand (in IE) is enough of a guide. If you want to be certain I’d simply add a line of text above the series saying something like “Click the thumbnail for a larger image”. Just my 2¢
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### Author:  [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-q-why-do-some-thumbnails-have-a-border-and-others-dont/82826/5 "2001-09-20T18:37:35Z")
Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙂
[sub]It never occured to me to check the html…I’m such a moron sometimes…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-q-why-do-some-thumbnails-have-a-border-and-others-dont/82826/6 "2001-09-20T19:59:31Z")
Don’t feel bad about it; there’s a lot of little things to keep track of. For example, when prepping fotos for my Web site, I’ll add a border of white air around them, so that there will be a little gap between it and the text (I have the text wrapping around the photo). Someone could probably suggest an easier way around this problem using HTML.
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### Author:  [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-q-why-do-some-thumbnails-have-a-border-and-others-dont/82826/7 "2001-09-20T20:38:57Z")
And a pet peeve of mine: make sure that when you link the picture using the A HREF tag, you don’t have any spaces in it. If you do, HTML interprets the space as a link, and puts a little blue underscore mark (\_) next to your picture. This annoys me no end on websites, and I see iton professional sites all the time.
So don’t do \
\
Now here’s one without a border:
\; do this: \<a href=“some link.html\>\<img src=someimage.jpg”\>\</a\>
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<div class=)
Replace x, y, a, and b with the number of pixels you want.