[Millennium]

I'm trying to get a solid, one-color table border (or any border around a box). I've managed the feat in everything but Netscape4 thus far. Unfortunately, as usual, NS4 seems to be giving me issues. CSS borders are unacceptable, because NS4 puts a space between the border and the content. But I can't seem to get a combination of table border attributes that works either. Anyone have any ideas?

(and before anyone asks, compatibility with other browsers is not an issue; I'm going to be serving this stuff to Netscape via a server-side XSLT transform that other browsers won't get. So I'd even be willing to try JSSS if that'd work).

[registered_user]

I tried all my tricks, and I can't do it. One thing I didn't try though is using negative magin values in the styles for NS4 to try to counter-act the dead space. I dont know if that will work.

Another possibility is to use the <layer> tag that NS4 supports. I've never used it so I don't know if it'll do what you need, but it might be worth a shot. (I never code anything specifically for NS4 other than a message saying please upgrade to Netscape 6.)

[yongfook]

cant you just create a black table, then put a white table inside it - thus creating a black bordered table.

should work fine in NS4

[ReggieX]

All mine are done like the table on this page:

black border table

[Simon Mundy]

<table border="1" bordercolor="#ff0000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#333333">

You still get a faint bevel on the inside of the table, but it's the cleanest way for this to work (even if it isn't HTML 4.01 compliant)

[Millennium]

After looking at the HTML for several pages (including the MacNN forums), I think I'm going to go the table-in-table route.

Now I just have to get my XSLT working to transform my nice clean DIV's...