Can I make a border around a single cell in dreamweaver?

HTML & CSS
1

Can I make a border around a single cell in dreamweaver?? , I mean I want to make a border around one cell only and not the entire table.
Thanks for your help and God bless you

2

You can set a TD property say “border = 1”

This will solve ur problem

3

I actually don’t think you can apply borders to TDs?

Tables Yes - Cells No.

However, an easy way of achieving this is to use a simple bit of CSS. Here’s how you do it:

Put this between your <head> Tags:


<style type="text/css">
<!--
.cellborder {
	border: 1px solid #FF0000;
}
-->
</style>

Then - go to your cell that you wish to apply a border to and add the following code:


<td class="cellborder">

Hey presto! that should do it! You can make the border thicker or thinner by changing it from 1px to whatever you like - and then the colour by changing the Hex code.

Hope this helps! :slight_smile:

4

Thanks, I will try it and see what happens
God bless you

5

It messed up my code
It moved the cell to the right of the page and decreased its width?!!

6

That is the problem with tables. Play with the width:

.cellborder {
border: 1px solid #FF0000;
width: 20%;
}

7

ok I will try that, by the wya what do u think better designing with tables or what?? I find a lot of pain myself designing and adjusting tables

8

I don’t use tables much, but I would have to agree with you. It is a HUGE pain designing and adjusting tables. That is why I’m trying to hurry up and learn more CSS so I can create a “table-less layout”.

9

I agree that there is no property as a border for the TD i was wrong.

About usage of table, i will support this as that is the one of the way by which you can have ur page look good
another way is u can go for DIV or SPAN tags.

10

you can apply borders to table cells, not like border=“1” or anything, but through css you can apply a border to just about anything :slight_smile: except TR from my experience.

11

how can you apply border to table cells? I just tried the above css example and it messed up my code.

12

Hi Fido,

Would you be able to provide a link / post the code of your example, as I can’t understand how simply adding a border around a cell could throw out your code so badly. :frowning:

Maybe it’s something very simple that I’ve overlooked?

Chris