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It looks to me as though EW does not have all the functionality of the FP2003 layout tables and cells.  I can't find any way to add a single border to one side of a cell.  Is there a way to do this in EW using CSS?

 I haven't purchased EW yet but you can do it with CSS It would look something like this

<table with="400" height="400" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
Here is some stuff<br/>
that will fill the cell now
</td>
<td style="border-left : 1px solid Black;">
Here is some stuff<br/>
that will fill the cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Just subsitute left for top, bottom or right if you want it on all sides just take out the "-(side)"

Hope that helps

Can't figure out what you mean by take out the "-(side"

I think that Microsoft is realizing more that tables / cells should not be used for laying out a website.

Having said that, I think what the other post meant is change left to right

border-right: 1px solid #fff

Expression Web does offer a way to do it, albeit a bit archaic I would say and much less intuitive. There is an icon in the Table section when you are customizing your toolbar.

But from what I can see, it would be better to code it

 sorry about that what I meant is if you remove the right from border-right then you will end up with a completely enclosed box.

e.g. change <td style="border-left : 1px solid Black;"> to <td style="border : 1px solid Black;"> what I meant with -side was replace the word side with left right top or bottom adding any of these will place the border there. border-top will place a border at the top of the cell border-left will place a border on the left side and so on.

 

Frank 

Hi Corey,

What I was looking for was something like the cell formatting tool that was in Front Page.  Right now, you have the option to format the table but not the cells. It just seems to me that if tables are still offered as a part of EW, it should have all the tools to format them.

Got it now Frank, thanks for your help. This was really very simple to do in Front Page so I am having a hard time adjusting.

I had forgotten about that - it has been almost a year now since I have not used Frontpage 2003 all that much. Formatting Cells in Expression Web might help some, but it really does seem like hand-coding is the way to go with this one.

Plus if you do use an external style sheet, it might be a lot easier down the road if you need to change a style to a certain cell.

Hi Corey,

Thanks for that one.  The formatting cells in Expression Web helped a lot.  I added it to the tables tool bar and now it works ok.  Hand coding is probably the way to go if you know what to put in there but I am still working on my bachelors degree in WYSIWYG.

Glad it all worked out. It give me time to learn a few things with Expression Web and hopefully help a few others.