Cell with borders

[kiteflyer]

I am starting to use Dreamweaver MX, and here is a problem that seems to be typical.

I set up a stylesheet, and attach it to my page. I define a new class (for a table), and assign a border to it. Now I apply that class to a cell (600px x 50px), and it draws the border just fine. But.....

The cell is now rendered too large - in other words, it looks like DW expects me to count the pixels for the border and reduce the cell size by that amount.

What happens if I change the border from "thick" to "thin"? Resize my cell again? I must be doing something wrong. What is it?

I've simple made a "layout table" 600x50, and placed a cell in it (600x50).

Thanks for any help....JP Harrison

 

[kiteflyer]

Oops.... I just realized what I did - I applied the class to the TABLE, not to a CELL within the table.... my bad.

Also, I have now realized that if you attempt to drop an image onto a table (not onto a cell within the table, nothing happens - or more accurately, it puts the image in the wrong place. Well, you HAVE to have a cell in which to place the image. Stupid me.

JP

 

[lebisol]

Hi kiteflyer!
nothings stupid about you that I can see.....u did more than most people here...which is FIND the answer, way to go!
Now, if u really would like to use a single image in a table (as a background) u can use CSS to set that image and position it with respect to the table.
eg.
=================table============
-----img---------


------img--------



===================================

<style>
#MY_TABLE_NAME {
 background-image: url(../images/background.jpg);
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: 330px 202px;
}
</style>
<Table width=649 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 id="MY_TABLE_NAME">
.....
</Table>

or u can make a CSS class and assing it to the table as well (vs. css ID used above)

.my_class{
...
}
< table width=649 BORDER=0 class="my_class"...>

All the best!

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