Got it to work with: border-spacing:2px;
border-collapse:separate;
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From: Tom Livingston [mailto:tom...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 12:19 PM
To: Angela French
Cc: css-d (css-d@lists.css-discuss.org)
Subject: Re: [css-d] table design woes
Without looking too long, the one table that shows what you are after has
border-spacing of 2px. The other has 0.
HTH
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Angela French <afre...@sbctc.edu> wrote:
> I have always styled tables with a background color and padding on the <td>s
> so that the background color of the table looks like a border around each
> cell. Here is an example on our current site:
> http://www.sbctc.edu/general/policymanual/_a-policymanual_1.10.aspx .
>
> I'm trying to recreate this on a new site, but it's not working. I can't
> figure out why. In this test I have set up the <td>s with the green
> background just so I could see what's going on, but they will be a white
> background in the end. The background color of the cells is not shrinking to
> allow the background color of the table to show through and look like the
> border.
>
> http://dev.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/policies-rules/policy-manual/1.10.
> aspx
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> Thanks for taking a look.
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> Angela French
> Internet Specialist
> State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
> 360-704-4316
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