On Jul 17, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Mark Henderson wrote: >> As far as I can see, on Win IE border-collapse: collapse overrides >> the >> _default_ cellspacing. That is, if you set it and do not use the >> cellspacing attribute in HTML markup, there is no spacing between >> cells. >> >> Oddly enough, it does not override an _explicit_ cellspacing >> attribute. > > A quick demo locally reveals you are correct (in IE 5.5/6/7). For some > reason I had a recollection that cellspacing was still required for > certain browsers, and then I found this in my bookmarks: > > http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/14032 > > ...which is somewhat antiquated. At least my memory is still working! > Sorry for the inaccurate information.
It is all a bit more complicated... in IE. With no 'cellpsacing' attribute in the html, and using 'border- collapse:collapse', AND painting equal borders on all sides of a table-cell, IE works correctly. But if you want different borders (thick at the bottom, thin on the sides), or only a bottom border on certain cells, things can go wrong... <http://dev.l-c-n.com/iExploder7/table-robert.html> Look at the second table. The ticker the border, the merrier the painting oddities. (as an aside, the only more modern browser that doesn't support the border-collapse property is IE Mac; and I seem to remember problems in early versions of Safari, those that still run on OS X 10.2). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
