Question about CSS

I am new to the whole CSS realm, and am trying to follow along in a
DreamweaverMX book I have that explains how to use it. I have created a
external CSS file, called tbl.css, and in my header on the page I have
<link href="tbl.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

The CSS file is suppost to put a red line down the left border of any
table, and is defined as:

td{
border-left-color: #FF0000;
}

The problem is that when I test this out, there is no border.

What have I done wrong?

Steve

Steve Grosz wrote:

I am new to the whole CSS realm, and am trying to follow along in a
DreamweaverMX book I have that explains how to use it. I have created a
external CSS file, called tbl.css, and in my header on the page I have
link href="tbl.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /

The CSS file is suppost to put a red line down the left border of any
table, and is defined as:

td{
border-left-color: #FF0000;
}

The problem is that when I test this out, there is no border.

What have I done wrong?

Steve

If you want the border on your table, not just on the cells within the
table you should assign it to table not td.

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Steve Grosz wrote:

td{
border-left-color: #FF0000;
}

You need to define a width also.

table{
border-left: 1px solid #FF0000;
}


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td{
border-left-color: #FF0000;
}

That's part of the syntax required.
You'll need to add a border-style and thickness to see anything happen.

To apply to a table cell only:

td {
border-left-color: #FF0000;
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: 2px;
}

or, better, using shorthand:

td { border-left: #FF0000 solid 2px; }

To apply to a table, change "td" to "table".

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