On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Trevor Nicholls wrote: > Sample table can be seen at > http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/bdf02c11e5.gif
It would be better to post the URL of the page itself, so that both the HTML markup and the CSS code (and HTTP headers and images and all the rest) are available for analysis. > My question relates to the junction between the black bottom border of the > table heading row and the grey side border of the two columns. It's partly > grey and partly black, and I'd like it to be wholly black. It's difficult to see: I need to zoom up to 400% on IE 7 to see the issue. I wrote a simple demo page where the effect is easier to see, due to very large (1em) border width: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/intb.html This is tricky because CSS specifications don't seem to specify the color of the junction. They specify how adjacent borders collapse, but this is about "crossing" borders. Actually if I view my test page on Firefox 2, I see the borders differently. And it seems that Firefox is right: in the collapse, cell border color should "win" table border color, other things being equal. Perhaps other things aren't equal on your page (e.g., maybe the table borders are wider), since it displays the same on Firefox as on IE - except for the junction, where the rendering (sufficiently zoomed) is an even odder mix of the two colors on Firefox. > Is there something I have defined inaccurately? I think the problem is in the vagueness of CSS specs and in browser differences. I cannot think of any simple solution. Maybe you need to use border-collapse: separate and set the borders in a more detailed manner. Since you don't want spacing between adjacent borders, you would have to set <table cellspacing="0">, since the CSS equivalent isn't supported by IE. I'm not even sure whether this is a feasible approach; maybe it's best to accept the problem, since it probably won't disturb most visitors. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
