How can I apply a border only inside a table?

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I am trying to figure out how to add border only inside the table. When I do:

table {
    border: 0;
}
table td, table th {
    border: 1px solid black;
}

The border is around the whole table and also between table cells. What I want to achieve is to have border only inside the table around table cells (without outer border around the table).

Here is markup I'm using for tables (even though I think that is not important):

<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Heading 1</th>
        <th>Heading 2</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Cell (1,1)</td>
        <td>Cell (1,2)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Cell (2,1)</td>
        <td>Cell (2,2)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Cell (3,1)</td>
        <td>Cell (3,2)</td>
    </tr>
</table>

And here are some basic styles I apply to most of my tables:

table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0;
}
html-table border css html
10 Answers

If you are doing what I believe you are trying to do, you'll need something a little more like this:

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
table td, table th {
  border: 1px solid black;
}
table tr:first-child th {
  border-top: 0;
}
table tr:last-child td {
  border-bottom: 0;
}
table tr td:first-child,
table tr th:first-child {
  border-left: 0;
}
table tr td:last-child,
table tr th:last-child {
  border-right: 0;
}

jsFiddle Demo

The problem is that you are setting a 'full border' around all the cells, which make it appear as if you have a border around the entire table.

Cheers.

EDIT: A little more info on those pseudo-classes can be found on quirksmode, and, as to be expected, you are pretty much S.O.L. in terms of IE support.

user_1246740

this should work:

table {
 border:0;
}

table td, table th {
    border: 1px solid black;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}

edit:

i just tried it, no table border. but if i set a table border it is eliminated by the border-collapse.

this is the testfile:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0;
}


table {
    border: 0;
}
table td, table th {
    border: 1px solid black;
}


</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Heading 1</th>
        <th>Heading 2</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Cell (1,1)</td>
        <td>Cell (1,2)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Cell (2,1)</td>
        <td>Cell (2,2)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Cell (3,1)</td>
        <td>Cell (3,2)</td>
    </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>
user_1510970

Works for any combination of tbody/thead/tfoot and td/th

table.inner-border {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0;
}

table.inner-border > thead > tr > th,
table.inner-border > thead > tr > td,
table.inner-border > tbody > tr > th,
table.inner-border > tbody > tr > td,
table.inner-border > tfoot > tr > th,
table.inner-border > tfoot > tr > td {
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
    border-right: 1px solid black;
}

table.inner-border > thead > tr > :last-child,
table.inner-border > tbody > tr > :last-child,
table.inner-border > tfoot > tr > :last-child {
    border-right: 0;
}

table.inner-border > :last-child > tr:last-child > td,
table.inner-border > :last-child > tr:last-child > th {
    border-bottom: 0;
}
<table class="inner-border">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th>head1,1</th>
        <td>head1,2</td>
        <td>head1,3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>head2,1</td>
        <td>head2,2</td>
        <th>head2,3</th>
    </tr>
    </thead>
    <tr>
        <td>1,1</td>
        <th>1,2</th>
        <td>1,3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>2,1</td>
        <td>2,2</td>
        <td>2,3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>3,1</td>
        <td>3,2</td>
        <td>3,3</td>
    </tr>
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th>foot1,1</th>
        <td>foot1,2</td>
        <td>foot1,3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>foot2,1</td>
        <th>foot2,2</th>
        <th>foot2,3</th>
    </tr>
    </thead>
</table>

user_11192790

This should work:

HTML:

<table frame="void" rules="all">

CSS:

td, th {
    border: 1px solid red;
}
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