Re: [css-d] table design woes

2015-07-13 Thread Tom Livingston
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Angela French wrote: > Where did you see that border-spacing applied? I just applied it to the new > table (2px) but it had no effect./ Oddly, it was just under user agent style. But nothing anywhere else. I did notice bootstrap is involved this time, which has a

Re: [css-d] table design woes

2015-07-13 Thread Angela French
Got it to work with: border-spacing:2px; border-collapse:separate; -Original Message- 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

Re: [css-d] table design woes

2015-07-13 Thread Angela French
: [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 wrote: > I have always styled tables with a background color and padding on the s > so th

Re: [css-d] table design woes

2015-07-13 Thread Tom Livingston
On a related note, I thought it was still preferred to have the cell-spacing attribute on a table. Is this not the case? Is that a (legacy) browser support thing? On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > Without looking too long, the one table that shows what you are after > has b

Re: [css-d] table design woes

2015-07-13 Thread Tom Livingston
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 wrote: > I have always styled tables with a background color and padding on the s > so that the background color of the table look

[css-d] table design woes

2015-07-13 Thread Angela French
I have always styled tables with a background color and padding on the 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