HTML question re: table borders, legend border, horizontal lines

Playing around with HTML stuff. Practicing and experimenting.

I can increase the thickness of the table border but haven't found a way to change that grey color. (I replaced the brackets just in case it messes up this post.)

<table border="5" width="100%" cellpadding="7"> This works.

<table border="5 style="color:red" width="100%" cellpadding="7"> Doesn't work. Am I getting close?

Also I've been using the fieldset element with a legend attribute to enclose and label my examples. The 'box' or 'border' is a thin blue line. Is this changeable?

Speaking of changing things ... how about the horizontal line element? Anyway to change the thickness or color?

Thanks greenbelt

 

This may help
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falcon

 

OK I'll take another look. Thanks.

 

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falcon

 

I installed the JustStyle CSS Editor. It's great! As I use it more I'm sure I'll become more familiar with the various properties and values. Gets confusing to keep looking things up all the time. I'm also trying out the Template Generators.

Thanks, greenbelt

 

You need to specify the style as a property in the HTML for the table, for example:

Code:

<table style="border: 5px solid #F00" width="100%" cellpadding="7">
<tr>
  <td>123</td>
</tr>
</table>

I usually setup the table border to be 0 in the stylesheet then in the HTML set it to whatever is necessary for each table case.

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yea that's what I figured about the various programs. Don't have much patience to learn how to use them fully. I'd rather take that time to get better at HTML and CSS. I'm keeping some of them to play with but the more I learn about XHTML and CSS the easier it is to code 'by hand'. I'm kinda a control freak anyways. I rather do things the hard way and have full control on every little detail. Not like I have much else to do with my time so...