html/css question

_john_i_ · 09-08-2008, 02:04 PM

Hi guys,

I don't do much html stuff, but I have a hopefully simple question.

I have a simple table, with a defined border style:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Border Test</title> 

</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" style="{border: 1px solid #000000}" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <td>cell1</td>
  <td>cell2</td>
</table>
</body>
</html>

On internet explorer, it draws the black border around the table.
But in firefox, it does not draw the border.

I found that if I comment out the "<!DOCTYPE" entry at the top, firefox does draw the border.

Can anyone explain why this is? Is there something I am missing that needs to be added once the XHTML doctype is included?

Thanks,

John

keefaz · 09-08-2008, 02:53 PM

Why do you use { and } in style content ?
try: style="border: 1px solid #000000"
and page should look good in firefox

No <tr> </tr> in <table> ?

_john_i_ · 09-08-2008, 03:04 PM

Thanks, that did the trick. The "{ }" was already in the existing html I was working on. Not sure why the previous person did that.

The missing <tr> was just my sloppy quick example.

Thanks again,

John