Table Borders

I realize this has been discussed to death. I have read the users guide thoroughly. I have read many of the support threads and I still do not find an answer. I want to create a table that has a border all around it and a border below the first (header) row. Without using HTML I get a border on top and left. I am willing to accept it might be a size of table issue (as some have suggested) but do not know how to correct regardless. I have tried going in cell by cell but get borders on right and bottom of cell which works for header but not others. I remember borders in a previous version used to show up with style for each border of a photo(i.e. Border-right; border-top etc.) I tried those but really do not remember the exact style name. I am pretty comfortable editing the HTML if the answer lies there. If this helps, my preview shows the border as it appears in Editor which would be OK also or at least better. I was not able to upload a DOC or PDF but have a sample at http://www.mvbuyeragents.com/logo .
Thank you for any help. Took a rainy day off from work and decided to finally tackle this issue.

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 22:29

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Table Borders

That's not related to CKEditor but just a CSS question.

If you add this to your stylesheet you'll get the results that you want:

table {
    border: 1px solid #000;
}
td {
    border-width: 0;
}
thead td, thead th {
    border-width: 0 0 1px 0;
}

Personally I would use a class on the table so it doesn't affect other tables but that's up to you.

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 02:51

froven

Joined: 10/05/2012

Posts: 2

Re: Table Borders

Different user name; same person.

I played with HTML a bit and was able to edit the table style and now have a bottom border. Not sure where the other styles go or exactly what the format is.
Not sure I understand why not an FCKeditor question. Is it impossible to create a teble with border all around with editor?
I have never been able to find a list of class codes but would love to have someone explain how I could use that to create a border.

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 03:01

froven

Joined: 10/05/2012

Posts: 2

Re: Table Borders

Sorry. When I place "border: 1px solid #000;" in style field I get the desired results. Maybe a bit dense tonight. Is there a way to border every cell or does that have to be one at a time. I want to have 2 pixel border around all and 1 around individual cells.
Thanks for help.