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HTML tables can be greatly improved with CSS:

Company	Contact	Country
Alfreds Futterkiste	Maria Anders	Germany
Berglunds snabbköp	Christina Berglund	Sweden
Centro comercial Moctezuma	Francisco Chang	Mexico
Ernst Handel	Roland Mendel	Austria
Island Trading	Helen Bennett	UK
Königlich Essen	Philip Cramer	Germany
Laughing Bacchus Winecellars	Yoshi Tannamuri	Canada
Magazzini Alimentari Riuniti	Giovanni Rovelli	Italy

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CSS Table Borders

The CSS border property is used to specify the width, style, and color of table borders.

The border property is a shorthand property for:

• border-width - sets the width of the border
• border-style - sets the style of the border (required)
• border-color - sets the color of the border

The example below specifies a 1px solid border for <table>, <th>, and <td> elements:

Firstname	Lastname
Peter	Griffin
Lois	Griffin

Example

table, th, td { border: 1px solid; } Try it Yourself »

CSS Table Border Color

The example below specifies a 1px solid green border for <table>, <th>, and <td> elements:

Firstname	Lastname
Peter	Griffin
Lois	Griffin

Example

table, th, td { border: 1px solid green; } Try it Yourself »

Why Double Borders?

Notice that the tables in the examples above have double borders. This is because both the <table>, <th>, and <td> elements have separate borders.

To remove double borders, take a look at the example below.

CSS Collapse Table Borders

The CSS border-collapse property sets whether table borders should collapse into a single border or be separated as in standard HTML.

This property can have one of the following values:

• separate - Default value. Borders are separated; each cell will display its own borders
• collapse - Borders are collapsed into a single border when possible

The following table has collapsed borders:

Firstname	Lastname
Peter	Griffin
Lois	Griffin

Example

Using the border-collapse property:

table { border-collapse: collapse; } Try it Yourself »

CSS Table Padding

To control the space between the border and the content in a table, use the padding property on <td> and <th> elements:

First Name	Last Name	Savings
Peter	Griffin	$100
Lois	Griffin	$150
Joe	Swanson	$300

Example

th, td { padding: 10px;} Try it Yourself »

CSS Border Spacing

The CSS border-spacing property sets the distance between the borders of adjacent cells.

Note: This property works only when border-collapse is set to "separate".

The following table has a border-spacing of 15px:

Firstname	Lastname
Peter	Griffin
Lois	Griffin

Example

Using the border-spacing property:

table { border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 15px;} Try it Yourself »

CSS Outside Table Borders

If you just want a border around the table (not inside), you specify the border property only for the <table> element:

Firstname	Lastname
Peter	Griffin
Lois	Griffin

Example

table { border: 1px solid; } Try it Yourself » ❮ Previous Next ❯ ★ +1 Sign in to track progress