BORDERCOLOR In A Table

[Tsunami Australia]

I have a table that I need a coloured border for it rather than the plain
old grey one. I have put in the command bordercolor="0000e0" within the
table command. However whilst this physically works, the w3c validator fails
on this command and says it is not a valid command where it is. What other
solutions could I possibly use to make this work and pass the validator?

[Mark Parnell]

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Tsunami Australia
<gl**@oriley.despam.id.au> declared in
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I have put in the command
HTML is not a programming language; it does not have commands.
bordercolor="0000e0" within the
table command.
See above re: "command".
However whilst this physically works,
For some values of "works".
the w3c validator fails
on this command and says it is not a valid command where it is.
That's because the bordercolor attribute (again, see above re:
"command") was never a part of any version of HTML.
What other
solutions could I possibly use to make this work and pass the validator?

CSS, same as any other presentational issues.

table {border: 1px solid #0000E0;}

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[Jukka K. Korpela]

Mark Parnell <we*******@clarkecomputers.com.au> scripsit:

table {border: 1px solid #0000E0;}

This sets the color of the border around the entire table. To set the colors
around the cells, as the nonstandard bordercolor attribute does, you need to
set the border (or just border-color) for th and td elements as well in your
CSS. Oh, and maybe caption, too.

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