CSS - Override Borders On One Table Cell

I have a table that is populated using Spry. For some of the users, the table is showing its' borders in white when there is no data in the cell and for other users (like me) it's showing its' borders in black like expected. This is occurring in IE8 for the user. I have IE8 as well.

Here is a setup of my table
Code:

<div id="Content">
        <p class='instructions'>Click a column header to sort the table.</p>
        <div spry:region="jdmba">
          <div spry:state="loading" class="loading">Please wait while alumni data loads&hellip;</div>
          <table class="spry" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
              <th scope="col" width="108px" class="sortable" spry:sort="last" id="last">Last Name</th>
              <th scope="col" width="106px" class="sortable" spry:sort="first" id="first">First Name</th>
              <th scope="col" width="269px" class="sortable" spry:sort="account" id="account">Company</th>
              <th scope="col" width="66px" class="sortable" spry:sort="state" id="state">State</th>
              <th scope="col" width="82px" class="sortable" spry:sort="hls_year" id="hls_year">JD</th>
              <th scope="col" width="82px" class="sortable" spry:sort="hbs_year" id="hbs_year">MBA</th>
            </tr>
          </table>
          <div class="Overload">
            <table class="spry" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
              <tr spry:repeat="jdmba" spry:setrow="jdmba" spry:odd="odd" spry:even="even" spry:hover="hover" >
                <td width="108px">{last}</td>
                <td width="106px">{first}</td>
                <td width="269px">{account}</td>
                <td width="66px">{state}</td>
                <td width="82px">{hls_year}</td>
                <td width="82px">{hbs_year}</td>
              </tr>
            </table>
          </div>
        </div>

Here is my CSS file
Code:

a:link {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: none;
}
#News a:link {
	color: #00F;
}
#News a:hover {
	color: #00F;
	text-decoration: underline;
}




body {
	background: #000 repeat;
}




#wrap {
	background: #000;
	width: 900px;
	border: thick solid #9C0029;
	float: left;
	height: auto;
	padding: 0px 0px 1em;
	margin-top: 2%;
	margin-left: 10%;
}
#footer {
	font: bold small/50px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFF;
	background: #9C0029;
	text-align: center;
	height: 50px;
	width: 850px;
	margin-left: 25px;
}

#Header {
	background: #8F001C url(../images/banner.jpg) no-repeat center center;
	width: 850px;
	height: 150px;
	margin-top: 20px;
	margin-right: 20px;
	margin-left: 25px;
}
h1 {
	font: normal 18px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #000;
	text-align: left;
}
h2 {
	font: small Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	color: #333;
	text-align: justify;
}
h3 {
	font: normal medium "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	color: #FFF;
}
h4 {
	font-size: small;
	color: #333;
	text-align: left;
}
.banners {
	background: #FFF0B2;
	width: auto;
	height: auto;
	font: 18px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	padding-top: .5em;
	padding-bottom: .5em;
	text-indent: 10px;
}
.Content {
	font: 14px/normal Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align: justify;
	display: block;
	padding: 2em 3em 3em;
}
.Content a:link {
	color: #00F;
}
.Content a:hover {
	color: #00F;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.Content a:visited {
	color: #00F;
}

#inner_body {
	background: #FFF;
	height: auto;
	width: 800px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-left: 50px;
	padding-top: 0.5em;
	padding-bottom: .5em;
}
#inner_border {
	margin: 0em auto auto;
	border: thin solid #8E887C;
	width: 775px;
	padding: 1em 0em 0em;
}
#nav_bar {
	height: 3em;
	width: 100%;
	margin-left: 0%;
	text-align: center;
}


#Content {
	height: auto;
	width: 95%;
	padding: 0em 0% 5em;
	margin: 2.5% 2.55% 2%;
	text-align: left;
	font-family: Verdana;
}
#nav {
	height: auto;
	width: 20em;
}

#News {
	margin-left: 2px;
	height: 30%;
	background: #FFF0B2;
	padding: 3%;
}
#News a:visited {
	color: #00F;
}

.Overload
{
	height: 208px;
	overflow: auto;
}

.odd { background-color: #E8E8E8; }
.even { background-color: #E8E8E8;}
.hover { background-color: #FFC;}
table.spry {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height:20px;
	cursor: pointer;
}

.instructions {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height:20px;
	cursor: pointer;
	margin-bottom:8px;
}

.loading {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height:20px;
	cursor: pointer;
	margin-top:0px;
	margin-bottom:8px;
	color:#900;
}

table.spry th {
	border-left: 1px solid #000000;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
	border-top: 1px solid #000000;
	
	font-family:Verdana;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}
table.spry td {
	border-left: 1px solid #000000;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
	
	font-family:Verdana;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}
table.spry th.sortable:hover { cursor: pointer; }
table.spry th.sortable { text-align:left; color:#FFFFFF; background: #8F001C url(../SpryAssets/bg.gif) no-repeat 95% 6px; }
table.spry th.ascending { background: #8F001C url(../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarUpHover.gif) no-repeat 95% 8px;  }
table.spry th.descending { background: #8F001C url(../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif) no-repeat 95% 8px; }

I'm only placing borders on the left and bottom so that in my detail cells the borders aren't doubled up. So for example when I have no data for the cell State, the left and bottom border of that cell is white rather than black.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Im using the border properties like:

border-buttom-style
border-top-style
border-left-style
border-right-style
border-width
border-color

etc, etc, but when apply the style the colum or the row is affected entirely, this makes my top sliced image (header) with the separators visible. Im new to css and need some help in doing this. Thx

I'm working on some sortable data tables. I have designed the CSS so the columns look raised and the cells are outlined. The problem is that empty table cells are not outlined in IE.

I can fix this by doing a border-collapse, but then I lose the raised look of the headings. I can also fix this by adding a non-breaking space in the individual cells, but the developers tell me that they don't want to add the code to check whether there is data or not and then fill the empty cell with a non-breaking space.

So, I'm hoping there's some CSS trick I can use to force IE to outline the empty table cells. Anyone know of any?

The attachment shows the look with the empty cells.

I'm having some problems with CSS. If you look at the pictures below, the first is a screenshot of what it is supposed to look like. It's how it looks in most browsers. The second one, however, is how it looks in IE 6 on Windows and IE 5 on the Mac. It is wrong.

Correct look Incorrect look

I want to know how to fix this. The little colored boxes are supposed to be squares and have solid borders on them. The shape is off and the borders are missing on the IE version. Also, on the progress bar, there is not supposed to be space between the cells but there is. There is also space between every cell on the page and there is not supposed to be any.

Here is my main CSS:
Code:

	body		{ background-color: #FFFFFF; }
	a		{ text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; }
	a:link		{ color: #003366; background-color: transparent; }
	a:visited	{ color: #003300; background-color: transparent; }
	a:active	{ color: #339933; background-color: transparent; }
	a:hover		{ text-decoration: underline; }
	table		{ border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;}
	td, th		{ border: 0px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; }
	tr.one		{ background-color: #FFFFFF; }
	tr.two		{ background-color: #DDDDDD; }
	table.squares	{ border: 0px; border-spacing: 1px; width: 50px; height: 10px; }
	td.square	{ border: 1px solid grey; padding: 4px; }
	td.nopadding	{ padding: 0px; }
	.default	{ font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #000000; }
	.h1		{ font-size: 200%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;}
	.h2		{ font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; }
	.h3		{ font-weight: bold; }
	.step		{ font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: #999999; }

Here is one of the sets of squares:
Code:

<table class="squares">
    <tr>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #CCCC66"></td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #CC9966"></td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #990000; border: black"><td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #669966"></td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #669999"></td>
    </tr>
</table>

And finally, here is one of my progress bars:
Code:

<table style="color: white; width: 100px">
    <tr>
        <td style="padding:0px; text-align: right; padding-right: 5px; background-color:#222244; width:41px"></td>
        <td style="padding:0px; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px; background-color:#666666; width:59px">40.7%</td>
    </tr>
</table>

And in case that code is not enough, here is a link to the full HTML.

According to this CSS test my CSS is not wrong. So does IE just suck? Is there something I can do to make it work in all browsers?

My last question is, should I be using div tags for my boxes and progress bars instead of tables? I couldn't figure out how to make them work with divs so I just went with what I knew. Could someone give me an example of each using divs so I can learn how to make it work?

Hi there!

This might seem really basic but I don't seem to be able to remove the default border from a cell I created.

The code looks like this:

"<p> </p>
<table align="center" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div style="overflow: auto; height: 475px; width: 700px; border-style: hidden;">
<p align="center">
<img height="457" width="600" src="images/stories/vlkommen3.jpg" alt="vlkommen3" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">
</p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

How shall I do to hide the border?

Thanks in advance!

/Kristoffer