Giving a border to an HTML table row, <tr>

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Is it possible to border a table row, <tr> in one go instead of giving a border to individual cells, <td> like,

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border: 1px;" rules="none">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <th style="width: 96px;">Column 1</th>
            <th style="width: 96px;">Column 2</th>
            <th style="width: 96px;">Column 3</th>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td style="border-left: thin solid; border-top: thin solid; border-bottom: thin solid;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td style="border-top: thin solid; border-bottom: thin solid;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td style="border-top: thin solid; border-bottom: thin solid; border-right: thin solid;">&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

This gives a border around the given <tr> but it requires a border around individual cells.

Can we give a border to <tr> only in one go?

→ jsFiddle

html-table border css html
10 Answers

You can use the box-shadow property on a tr element as a subtitute for a border. As a plus, any border-radius property on the same element will also apply to the box shadow.

box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 1px rgb(0, 0, 0);
user_100072950 

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border: 1px;" rules="none">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <th style="width: 96px;">Column 1</th>
            <th style="width: 96px;">Column 2</th>
            <th style="width: 96px;">Column 3</th>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td style="border-left: thin solid; border-top: thin solid; border-bottom: thin solid;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td style="border-top: thin solid; border-bottom: thin solid;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td style="border-top: thin solid; border-bottom: thin solid; border-right: thin solid;">&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

user_58913070

You can try this (Border Just bottom of every row)

  table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
  }

  tr {
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
 }
user_91530630

adding border-spacing: 0rem 0.5rem; creates a space for each cell (td, th) items on its bottom while leaving no space between the cells

    table.app-table{
        border-collapse: separate;
        border-spacing: 0rem 0.5rem;
    }
    table.app-table thead tr.border-row the,
    table.app-table tbody tr.border-row td,
    table.app-table tbody tr.border-row th{
        border-top: 1px solid #EAEAEA;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #EAEAEA;
        vertical-align: middle;
        white-space: nowrap;
        font-size: 0.875rem;
    }

    table.app-table thead tr.border-row th:first-child,
    table.app-table tbody tr.border-row td:first-child{
        border-left: 1px solid #EAEAEA;
    }

    table.app-table thead tr.border-row th:last-child,
    table.app-table tbody tr.border-row td:last-child{
        border-right: 1px solid #EAEAEA;
    }
user_57776010

After fighting with this for a long time I have concluded that the spectacularly simple answer is to just fill the table with empty cells to pad out every row of the table to the same number of cells (taking colspan into account, obviously). With computer-generated HTML this is very simple to arrange, and avoids fighting with complex workarounds. Illustration follows:

<h3>Table borders belong to cells, and aren't present if there is no cell</h3>
<table style="border:1px solid red; width:100%; border-collapse:collapse;">
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <th>Col 1<th>Col 2<th>Col 3
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <td>Col 1 only
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <td colspan=2>Col 1 2 only
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <td>1<td>2<td>3

</table>


<h3>Simple solution, artificially insert empty cells</h3>

<table style="border:1px solid red; width:100%; border-collapse:collapse;">
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <th>Col 1<th>Col 2<th>Col 3
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <td>Col 1 only<td><td>
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <td colspan=2>Col 1 2 only<td>
    <tr style="border-top:1px solid darkblue;">
        <td>1<td>2<td>3

</table>
user_31333830
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