If you are doing what I believe you are trying to do, you'll need something a little more like this:
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table td, table th {
border: 1px solid black;
}
table tr:first-child th {
border-top: 0;
}
table tr:last-child td {
border-bottom: 0;
}
table tr td:first-child,
table tr th:first-child {
border-left: 0;
}
table tr td:last-child,
table tr th:last-child {
border-right: 0;
}
The problem is that you are setting a 'full border' around all the cells, which make it appear as if you have a border around the entire table.
Cheers.
EDIT: A little more info on those pseudo-classes can be found on quirksmode, and, as to be expected, you are pretty much S.O.L. in terms of IE support.
this works for me:
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-style: hidden;
}
table td, table th {
border: 1px solid black;
}
tested in FF 3.6 and Chromium 5.0, IE lacks support; from W3C:
Borders with the 'border-style' of 'hidden' take precedence over all other conflicting borders. Any border with this value suppresses all borders at this location.
Example of a very simple way for you to achieve the desired effect:
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4444 | 5555 | 6666 |
Due to mantain compatibility with ie7, ie8 I suggest using first-child and not last-child to doing this:
table tr td{border-top:1px solid #ffffff;border-left:1px solid #ffffff;}
table tr td:first-child{border-left:0;}
table tr:first-child td{border-top:0;}
For ordinary table markup, here's a short solution that works on all devices/browsers on BrowserStack, except IE 7 and below:
table { border-collapse: collapse; }
td + td,
th + th { border-left: 1px solid; }
tr + tr { border-top: 1px solid; }
For IE 7 support, add this:
tr + tr > td,
tr + tr > th { border-top: 1px solid; }
this should work:
table {
border:0;
}
table td, table th {
border: 1px solid black;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
edit:
i just tried it, no table border. but if i set a table border it is eliminated by the border-collapse.
this is the testfile:
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
table {
border: 0;
}
table td, table th {
border: 1px solid black;
}
Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
---|---|
Cell (1,1) | Cell (1,2) |
Cell (2,1) | Cell (2,2) |
Cell (3,1) | Cell (3,2) |
that will do it all without css
Works for any combination of tbody/thead/tfoot and td/th
table.inner-border {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
table.inner-border > thead > tr > th,
table.inner-border > thead > tr > td,
table.inner-border > tbody > tr > th,
table.inner-border > tbody > tr > td,
table.inner-border > tfoot > tr > th,
table.inner-border > tfoot > tr > td {
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
border-right: 1px solid black;
}
table.inner-border > thead > tr > :last-child,
table.inner-border > tbody > tr > :last-child,
table.inner-border > tfoot > tr > :last-child {
border-right: 0;
}
table.inner-border > :last-child > tr:last-child > td,
table.inner-border > :last-child > tr:last-child > th {
border-bottom: 0;
}
head1,1head1,2head1,3head2,1head2,2head2,3
1,11,21,32,12,22,33,13,23,3foot1,1foot1,2foot1,3foot2,1foot2,2foot2,3
Add the border to each cell with this:
table > tbody > tr > td { border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1); }
Remove the top border from all the cells in the first row:
table > tbody > tr:first-child > td { border-top: 0; }
Remove the left border from the cells in the first column:
table > tbody > tr > td:first-child { border-left: 0; }
Remove the right border from the cells in the last column:
table > tbody > tr > td:last-child { border-right: 0; }
Remove the bottom border from the cells in the last row:
table > tbody > tr:last-child > td { border-bottom: 0; }