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HTML Table Borders

HTML tables can have borders of different styles and shapes.

How To Add a Border

To add a border, use the CSS border property on table, th, and td elements:

Example table, th, td

{
border: 1px solid black;
}

Collapsed Table Borders

To avoid having double borders like in the example above, set the CSS

Formula

border - collapse property to collapse.

This will make the borders collapse into a single border:

Example table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

Style Table Borders

If you set a background color of each cell, and give the border a white color (the same as the document background), you get the impression of an invisible border:

Example table, th, td {
border: 1px solid white;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th, td {
background-color: #96D4D4;
}

Round Table Borders

Formula

With the border - radius property, the borders get rounded corners:
Example table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
border-radius: 10px;
}

Skip the border around the table by leaving out table from the css selector:

Example th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
border-radius: 10px;
}

Dotted Table Borders

Formula

With the border - style property, you can set the appearance of the border.

The following values are allowed:

dotted dashed solid double groove ridge inset outset none hidden

Example th, td {
border-style: dotted;
}

Border Color

Formula

With the border - color property, you can set the color of the border.
Example th, td {
border-color: #96D4D4;
}

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