Table inside a table

[pdbowling]

Hello everyone.

I have put many tables inside of other tables. I am just curious now if there is a way to set the attributes of the inner and outer tables so that the cell border of the outer table is the same set of lines as the table border of the inner table.

They always seem to come up with space between the cell and the table inside.

Thank you,
Patrick

 

[vacunita]

For starters, unless you are actually displaying tabular data, you should not be using tables like that.

In any case, all elements have a padding and margin set to them by default.

You may want to try removing the padding and margins of the tables and cells.

table tr td
[COLOR=#FF0000]{[/color]
[tab][COLOR=#0000FF]padding:[/color][i][COLOR=#009900]0px[/color][/i];
[COLOR=#FF0000]}[/color]

table tr td table
[COLOR=#FF0000]{[/color]
[tab][COLOR=#0000FF]margin:[/color][i][COLOR=#009900]0px[/color][/i];
[COLOR=#FF0000]}[/color]

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[FrankknarF]

You should indeed not use tables for layout purposes, but divs or the new HTML5 elements <section>, <header>, <footer>, <article>, <menu> and <aside).

Also, even with a margin and padding of 0, the borders will not be superimposed on each other. Only with absolute positioning, but then you are really going to make a messy layout of it.

I would suggest to start doing a basic HTML and CSS course, at for example W3 Schools. After a short while you'll be happy that you did, because using proper elements plus CSS gives much, much more possibilities than tables, for layout.

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[mmerlinn]

And when you do move away from tables for layout, be sure that you test pages thoroughly. You don't want pages that bleed off the right side of the screen with NO SCROLL BAR AT THE BOTTOM. It is irritating to find such poorly coded pages. And the only solution I have found (sometimes) is to reduce the font so small that it cannot be read.

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