If you've
ever tried to display an HTML table with borders within your web page, you
may have discovered that unless you are displaying some text or an image
within a table cell, the border will not display. However, this HTML tip
will enble you to display an HTML table with borders even if some of your
cells are empty.
Following is
an HTML table that contains some empty table cells. Notice the borders do
not display within the empty table cells.
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Your Text |
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Your Text |
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Simply by adding
the special character code within your HTML code, your
HTML table cells will be visible.
Your Text |
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Your Text |
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Your Text |
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Copy and paste
the following HTML code into the HTML portion of your web page.
<TABLE BORDER
CELLPADDING="4">
<TR>
<TD>Your Text</TD>
<TD> </TD>
<TD>Your Text</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD> </TD>
<TD>Your Text</TD>
<TD> </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE> |
Place the
character within the table cells that will be
empty.
HTML web page tables can be a bit tricky sometimes, but they will enable
you to give your web pages a great layout and are well worth the
trouble.
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