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CSS Attributes for Styling Tables

Property Description Values
border-collapse Determines whether adjoining borders merge (collapse) or appear seperated (seperate) collapse
separate
border-spacing Sets the distance that separates cell borders (only for the "separated borders" model) length length
caption-side Sets the position of the table caption top
bottom
left
right
empty-cells Sets whether or not to show empty cells in a table (only for the "separated borders" model)  show
hide
table-layout Sets the algorithm used to display the table cells, rows, and columns auto
fixed

Use border properties to set table borders. A simple table styling example:

#content table {
border-collapse:collapse;
width: 77%;
}
#content th {
background:#8C4504 none repeat scroll 0 0;
border:2px solid #FFFFFF;
padding:3px;
}
#content td {
background:#C88000 none repeat scroll 0 0;
border:2px solid #FFFFFF;
padding:3px;
}