CSS - Div Tags Inside Table Cells

Ok, so I'm making a website using tables and css since I personally hate using <div>. Anyway, it's going fine except for one problem. There is air between my cells. I wanted to show a SS of it, but apparantly I'm not allowed to post either links to the picture nor attach pictures to my thread, so I'll try to explain it.

Now, the html code for the tables looks like this:
Quote:
<table class="center">
<tr>
<td class="top">
<img src="img/top.jpg" alt="top" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="horizontal"></td>
</tr>
</table>


The is air between my two cells here. My horizontal border wont connect to my top cell containing the top.jpg.

The CSS code for trying to make the cells connect looks like this:
Quote:
table.center {
width: 590px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
border-spacing: 0px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

tr, th {
padding: 0px;
}

td.horizontal {
width: 590px;
height: 2px;
background: #28847F;
padding: 0px;
}

td.top {
width: 590px;
height: 91px;
padding: 0px;
}


How come the two freakin' cells wont connect?

with border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; in css
i got border only around the table
I want the border to surround every cell of the table
as it is with
<table border="1" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" >

how?

Hi, I have the following code which is for a table.
Code:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="A"></a>A</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="B"></a>B</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="C"></a>C</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="D"></a>D</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="E"></a>E</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="F"></a>F</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="G"></a>G</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="H"></a>H</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="I"></a>I</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="J"></a>J</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="K"></a>K</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="L"></a>L</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="M"></a>M</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="N"></a>N</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="O"></a>O</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="P"></a>P</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td><a name="Q"></a>Q</td>
		          </tr>
			      <tr>
			        <td>&nbsp;</td>
		          </tr>

		        </table>

What I want to do is to have a black 1px border around the cells with the letters in, in A, B, C , D etc etc.

I am hoping it is a CSS thing, but I only want it to apply to this table, not all the other tables on the page.

Anyone know the easiest way to do this?

Thanks

ok easy one.

basically i have a links outside a div and inside a div called footer.

how do i do it so that the links inside the footer div dont take the css style of the one outside?

i am trying to do:

#footer.a:hover {

}

and tried a:hover#footer but it aint working?

edit never mind!!!

Is it not possible to do the following? What is the correct way of aligning a cell if not?

PHP Code:
 TD.theader {
    background-color: #D0D0D0;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    padding:5px;
    horizontal-align: right;
} 

Hello,

I am working on a site and want to put a thin black line border on individual cells in a table with out putting a border on the whole table.

Im not very experienced with css and would perfer to keep it simple.

any info will help

thanks
Nick Carlevaris

I'm building a table (for tabular data, of course) and need text within cells centered. However, applying "text-align:center;" to the cells in any other way but inline styles doesn't work.

For example, this does not work:
Code:

td.centercell {
  text-align: center;
}

<table>
  <tr>
    <td class="centercell">Hi!</td>
  <tr>
</table>

But this does:
Code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td style="text-align:center;">Hi!</td>
  <tr>
</table>

I'd rather not have to put inline styles on every single cell I need centered, as this is most of them.

What's going on?

Hello, I am attempting to have two pieces of text within a table cell that also contains an image. I was able to figure out the first piece of text that I wanted vertically aligned to the top and to the left, but the next piece of text, which I want vertically aligned to the bottom of the cell and aligned right I am having issues with. Here is the example code:
Code:

<td style"vertical-align: bottom;"><img src="image1.jpg" border="0" width="195"><font style="position: absolute;left: 2;background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;font-weight: bold;font-size: 18px;">STYLE#</font><font style="position: absolute;right: ;background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;font-weight: bold;font-size: 18px;">As low as $x.xxfont></td>

Is this possible within the same table cell as the image? Or do I have to place a CSS table within this cell to place text over top of the image? I would have placed the image as the cell background image, however, I am dynamically creating these tables, and not all of my images are of same size. I am specifying the width though, just not the height. Thank you in advance.

I have a div with a background color set, that I want to have slightly transparent. Inside that div, is essentially my entire website. Now if I apply the opacity to the main outer div, all the divs inside inherit that transparency. Any ways to get around this?

The outer Div with the transparency is the "content_wrapper" div. It excludes the header and footer. So the only issue is correcting everything wrapped inside the "content_wrapper" and "content" div. I tried setting the "content" div to opacity: 1; but it had no effect whatsoever.

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I am developing a PHP/CSS database application built for Safari and have run into a very nasty bug.

(Aside: the web application I am building is sort of browser-specific... we are an all-Mac company, so we want people to use Safari. [I'm not even trying to make it work with IE5/Mac. Screw that.] But having said that, I'd also like it to work in IE6/Win and Firefox [Mac/PC] to give people at least a few more options, like if they're on their PC at home... whatever. Just thought I would explain that before I get flamed by those who think I'm crazy for going that route.)

Anyway, I'd like to have tables with cells/columns that are hidden on the screen but visible on printouts and vice versa. But I've discovered that using display:none for table cells in the print style sheet crashes Safari. It does not affect span tags within table cells.

This will crash Safari.
Code:

td { display: none; }

This is okay.
Code:

td span.printhide { display: none; }

This is also okay, but why do this if it's still going to take up the space on the page? Might as well just leave it.
Code:

td { visibility: hidden; }

Now, I've found a workaround that works, but it's a pain. Basically, instead of setting it up like a normal table, like this:

Code:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Cell</td>
</tr>
</table>

You have to set it up like this:

Code:

<span class="table">
<span class="row">
<span class="cell">Cell</span>
</span>
</span>

As long as you give those span tags their respective display attributes, this works when you set this in your print stylesheet, for example:

Code:

span.cell { display: none; }

But the big problem with doing it this way is that you're now completely handcuffed to the stylesheet. At least if the style sheet bonks the old way, you still have a table with tabular data in it. Plus, say if the next version of Safari fixes this problem, then you'd have to go back and fix it on every page that uses these span tags in order to "unlock" the handcuffs, which kind of nullifies the purpose of style sheets in the first place.

So I guess what I'm asking is if anyone knows of a workaround that I can use that does NOT involve converting my <table><tr><td> to <span><span><span>? Thanks for reading.

Hello,
I posted this in the HTML forum too but didnt get any replies so maybe people in here know it.

When you have a table cell with a width of 20%, and you put a very long string in it. Let's say 255 chars long, without spaces in between. The cell will then expand beyond the 20% that was specified. How can you prevent this and make sure the string is broken down and goes further on a next line in the cell when the 20% width is reached?

thanks in advance

How are you supposed to use the class="someCssStyle" attribute format inside of an struts html tag?
I tried just putting it in, but the jsp page won't compile:

<html:text property="ssn" class="textfield2" />

where textfield2 is a valid style attribute in my included css file.
Surely there is a way to specify this so that the taglib will render the proper output.
I'm not having any luck googling for an answer.

I'm fighting with this for a while now. I want to change my table layout into div based one, but keeping all the positive features of table design. The layout is based on percents and em (the liquid philosophy)

The problem:
Make div resize like table cell with minimal width equal to width of widest unbreakable element. I don't want my "verylongunnecesaryword" stick out of menu div nor dissapear partaily when resizing the window. I basically want the menu to always stay wide enough to accomodate the longest word and resize dynamically with window and fonts. There is no such problem when using tables, cells automatically resize to fit content and never become so small that content sticks out or disappear.

Setting the min-width with either em, px nor percent is a no go, because it's impossible to tell what size will the biggest element be. No javascript either. Also keeping it IE6 complaint would be good. I still think that tables are the best idea and unless someone shows me how to fix this problem with div and css, I'm just sticking with tables till the end of world.

shortened HTML:
Code:

<div class="menu">
menu here
</div>

<div class="contents">
the rest of page
</div>

shortened CSS:
Code:

.menu
{float: left;
width: 20%;
padding: 1%;
}

.contents
{float: left;
padding: 1%; 
width: 76%; 
}

I have a dynamic table that is in the cell of another table. For the life of me I cant get it to stick to the top of the cell. It wants to sit at the midline of it vertically.

Thanks for reading.

I'm trying to get a table inside another table which completely fills the parent table, but I cannot get it to work. The simple piece of code illustrates my problem. The red table is inside the blue table but does not cover the entire cell from top to bottom, but only the centre. I want this table to be streched. Obviously height: 100% doesn't work.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td>
           1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>
          </td>
          <td style="background: blue;">
            <table style="height: 100%; background: red;">
              <tbody>
                <tr>
                  <td style="vertical-align: bottom">
                    Test
                  </td>
                </tr>
              </tbody>
            </table>
          </td>          
        </tr>      
      </tbody>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>