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Apr 20.2004

For some reason I cannot define table borders via an external stylesheet linked in the <head> tags. All the other bits, such as text, refer back to it fine. I am using the “class” tag within the <table> tag but the only way I can get it to work is by using the “style” tag and defining it internally. Any ideas??

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@SamApr 20.2004 — do you have a link and/or full source code? Most likely, you are merely defining your borders incorrectly
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@TimeBanditApr 21.2004 — <div class="yadda">

<table class="target"><tr><td></td></tr></table>

</div>

either:

.target {border: 1px red solid;}

or:

table.target {border: 1px red solid;}

or:

.yadda .target {border: 1px red solid;}

Depends on whatever else you have specified . Sometimes u have to be more specific. There are other combos you can use to talk to the table, mixtures of above examples.
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@tedstoneaauthorApr 21.2004 — The <div> method does not work either, however I have found that by using an inline stylesheet it works fine. Even more of a mystery because as I said before everything else I have defined in the external stylesheet works fine. Where now, I need to be able to define externally!?
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@tedstoneaauthorApr 21.2004 — I am really dumb...it was a stray close bracket instead of } at the end of a previous css defintion...this will teach me to not bother with error checking! Many thanks for all your help though!
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