[Chuqui]

Hi everybody,

I need to put a simple table in my blog, but it doesn't show the border and it doesn't behave the way I want. Why is it so hard to make a basic piece of HTML work on a Posterous blog?

I have something like:

<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>Text</td>
<td>Text</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Text</td>
<td>Text</td>
</tr>
</table>

...and it doesn't show me any border. How can I put a nice border and define a border color? I just need a little help from you. Thanks,

Ricardo
http://placerdigital.net

[Cory Watilo]

Because nobody uses table borders like that anymore.

Do this instead:

<table {yada yada} style="border:solid 1px #000;">

[Chuqui]

Thank you, Cory. Anyways it doesn't work:

This is the article and this is the table.

Does it have to do with the styles of the theme I am using? Furthermore, I want to style the whole table, not just put a border. How can I do that in Posterous? Do I have to create a style in the .css file? Maybe that's the only way to do that?

Thanks!

[Cory Watilo]

Since you can't attach a class to an element in a post, you're going to have to blanket all tables within posts with the same CSS. Something like this:

table {
border-top:solid 1px #000;
border-left:solid 1px #000;
}
td {
border-right:solid 1px #000;
border-bottom:solid 1px #000;
padding:5px;
}

But you should segment to only work inside your posts. Something like .post table and .post td