HTML Table Borders
HTML tables can have borders of different styles and shapes.
How To Add a Border
When you add a border to a table, you also add borders around each table cell:
To add a border, use the CSS border property on table, th, and td elements:
Collapsed Table Borders
To avoid having double borders like in the example above, set the CSS border-collapse property to collapse.
This will make the borders collapse into a single border:
Style Table Borders
If you set a background color of each cell, and give the border a white color (the same as the document background), you get the impression of an invisible border:
Example
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid white;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th, td {
background-color: #96D4D4;
}
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Round Table Borders
With the border-radius property, the borders get rounded corners:
Skip the border around the table by leaving out table from the css selector:
Dotted Table Borders
With the border-style property, you can set the appearance of the border.
The following values are allowed:
dotteddashedsoliddoublegrooveridgeinsetoutsetnonehidden
Border Color
With the border-color property, you can set the color of the border.
