border-collapse property

Indicates whether the row and cell borders of a table are joined in a single border or detached as in standard HTML.

Syntax

border-collapse: collapse | separate | inherit

Property values

separate: Initial value. Borders are detached (standard HTML).
collapse: Borders are collapsed, where adjacent, into a single border.
inherit: The property takes the same specified value as the property for the element's parent.

CSS information

Applies To	table and inline-table elements
Media	visual
Inherited	true
Initial Value	separate

Standards information

CSS 2.1, Section 17.6

Examples

This example demonstrates how to use the border-collapse CSS property and the borderCollapse scripting property to manipulate the border on a table.

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/borderCollapse.htm

HTML


<table id="oID_1" style="border-collapse: collapse">
  <tr>
    <td>EST</td>
    <td>9:00 a.m.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>CST</td>
    <td>8:00 a.m.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>PST</td>
    <td>6:00 a.m.</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p>
  <input type="button" onclick="oID_1.style.borderCollapse='separate'" value="separate">
  <input type="button" onclick="oID_1.style.borderCollapse='collapse'" value="collapse">