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with the border being one pixel black line. i think it looks very nice but can't replicate. thanks.<!--content-->Hi Moorehed,<br />
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What they have done on this website is created one large table with a black background, then fitted tables with no borders inside with all the contents in.<br />
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Hope this helps you out.<br />
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Goody
<!--content-->hmmm thanks. i tried that but my black lines appear much thicker than theirs...<!--content-->goody974, they didn't do that at all. they used images (transparent images) to teh table cell<br />
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<table border="0" width="736" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" colspan="9"><img src=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"http://www.icivilengineer.com/images/shim.gif" width="1" height="1"></td><br />
</tr><br />
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this creates a cell with a width and height of the image. and the cell is black.<!--content-->Yep, it was the shim.gif (or whatever) that did it.<br />
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I have used that system before, it is a royal pain in the...... well you know where.eek: <br />
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The best approach is to use nested tables with cellpadding at "1" bgcolor black and a table inside the cell in white.<br />
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It takes a lot of time to get it right, but much faster loading.<br />
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Tonz:<!--content-->Why not just set border to 1, black?<!--content-->because the border style is too big for some webmasters.<!--content-->
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with the border being one pixel black line. i think it looks very nice but can't replicate. thanks.<!--content-->Hi Moorehed,<br />
<br />
What they have done on this website is created one large table with a black background, then fitted tables with no borders inside with all the contents in.<br />
<br />
Hope this helps you out.<br />
<br />
Goody
<!--content-->hmmm thanks. i tried that but my black lines appear much thicker than theirs...<!--content-->goody974, they didn't do that at all. they used images (transparent images) to teh table cell<br /><br />
<table border="0" width="736" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" colspan="9"><img src=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"http://www.icivilengineer.com/images/shim.gif" width="1" height="1"></td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
this creates a cell with a width and height of the image. and the cell is black.<!--content-->Yep, it was the shim.gif (or whatever) that did it.<br />
<br />
I have used that system before, it is a royal pain in the...... well you know where.eek: <br />
<br />
The best approach is to use nested tables with cellpadding at "1" bgcolor black and a table inside the cell in white.<br />
<br />
It takes a lot of time to get it right, but much faster loading.<br />
<br />
Tonz:<!--content-->Why not just set border to 1, black?<!--content-->because the border style is too big for some webmasters.<!--content-->