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Answer to Trivia Question: The Denmark Strait

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Tricks and Strategies

DOUBLE TABLES FOR BORDERS

Here's a trick we use quite often to add a clean border to tables, without having the border show up around every cell of our tables. What we want to do is create a nice table, then have a solid black border all around it.

Here's what we do.

First, create your table (without borders):

<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
Some text ...
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Now we're going to wrap another table around this one, using a black background and padding it with a value of "1" pixel. This will have the effect of pushing the inner table inside by one pixel, which will show the black background of the outer table, hence creating a nice 1 pixel black border around our inner table.

<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"
bgcolor="#000000"><tr></td>
<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
Some text ...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

Of course, you can change the bgcolor to whatever you want, and even add a pixel or two to make a fatter border. Play with this technique and your tables will look awesome!

TRIVIA QUESTION

Which stretch of water lies between Iceland and Greenland?
The answer can be found in the left column of this page.