showing style in an empty td

[dendenners]

Hi there,
I wrote in here last week to get information on how to get a black border on the right edge only of a <td>. I was advised the use the following code in my css file:
td.blahblah{
border-right:1px solid-black; color: black;
}
This works fine, except for one case. When there is no data in the cell, i.e. when it appears in the page as
<td class=blahblah></td>
In this case no style appears. Is there a way around this?
Thanks

 

[cian]

Try just putting in a blank space &nbsp;
or even a transparent gif.

É

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[Boomerang]

Hi dendenners,

Just put the space in it:

<td class=blahblah>&amp;nbsp;</td>

Hope this helps,
Erik <!-- My sport: Boomerang throwing !!
This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (

http://www.boomerang2002.com)

!! Many Happy Returns !! -->

 

[cian]

That wouldnt show for me: & n b s p ;

http://endamcg.com

 

[dendenners]

That is actually the way I have it at the moment. The problem is that some of my <td>'s contain data that is dynamically evaluated at runtime, so I would be happy if there was a way of showing the style without putting in &nbsp;. I take it from your suggestions that there isn't.

 

[Boomerang]

Hi Cian,

I struggled also in the beginning with this issue LOL
(took me days to figure out)
I will tell you the secret.
When you just write &amp;nbsp; you will see nothing because this editor see it as a space.

But if you write &amp;amp;nbsp; you will see it like my post.

So to make it difficult LOL : to explane you how to display &amp;amp;nbsp; I had to write &amp;amp;amp;nbsp;

oooh no (LOL) now I had to write &amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;

etc, etc,

Hop this helps you Cian,
Erik <!-- My sport: Boomerang throwing !!
This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (

http://www.boomerang2002.com)

!! Many Happy Returns !! -->

 

[Boomerang]

Hi dendenners,

I don't know how you dynamically evaluated the data in the TD (server side script ??? ) but let this script do the job for you:

If <field> is null/empty/&quot;&quot; (just 3 examples here)
then <data in TD> is &amp:nbsp;

or someting like that,

Erik <!-- My sport: Boomerang throwing !!
This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (

http://www.boomerang2002.com)

!! Many Happy Returns !! -->