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Here’s an older, html trick, from the days when CSS was just a dream…

If you ever tried to get an 1px; border on a table, in HTML, you probably wrote this: < table border = ” 1 ” bordercolor = ” #000000 ” > etc. But see it in a browser and it’ll show 2px borders instead. WHY? Simple, if you come to think about it: because, when defining the 1px border, it applies to both the table and it’s cells (by means of inheritance), and the 2 borders adding up always result in disurbing, thick, 2px borders. To better understand how this happens, suffice it to give the table acellspacing=”5″ – only then will you see how, in fact, the border was 1px thick… The 2 cases look like this:

Still, what to do, if CSS isn’t at hand and you still want that fine 1px border? Use this little trick:

< table cellspacing = ” 1 ” bgcolor = ” #000000 ” > … and then give all the cells a white background-color. This way, with no table-border but with an 1px spacing, the spacing WILL BECOME the 1px border you wanted in the first place.