Borders

[seanieboy77]

Anyone know where I could get cool table borders desings for my site?

-BTY

[CompGeek01]

I don't know what you mean, could you elaborate a little?

[seanieboy77]

Ya sure. What I mean is like if you put a border on a tabel I was wondering where I could get like a metal looking-type border. That would be great. For Example:

<table border="1">

If there was like "<table border scr img="blahblahblah.jpg>"

Thanks!

-BTY

[bassman]

From my knowledge you can't do that with only HTML, but I think that with some work and trial&error you can easily accomplish that effect using only border thickness and colors; check these out:
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/tables/index_famsupp_149.html
http://www.mountaindragon.com/html/tables2.htm

[seanieboy77]

What about Javascript or C++?

-BTY

[CompGeek01]

I'd do a google search for CSS and borders. You'll want to use CSS, it's the best for that kind of stuff.

You can't use C++ with webpages (compiled versus an interpreted language) and javascript might help you a little. Check out these links:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customcorners2/
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/css_no5.htm

[causticVapor]

You could do compound divs with various border styles. Support of all the border styles varies among browsers and you may get radically different results among browsers. This is one area where even IE lacks full W3C compliance.

IMHO? Better to use a table with a low-profile PNG image border, images sectioned into appropriate cells. Just make the cell padding and border zero and divide the image into multiple files accordingly... it'll come out perfectly. Far more can be done as well in photoshop than you'd ever dream with the CSS border primitives. :)

Note that in order to make it infinitely scaleable, it's suggested to make the images background-repeats repeating in whatever direction they need to repeat in. Keep this in mind when making the table border image.

http://apages.i989.net - if you look at the left-hand TOC, you'll notice the psuedo-shadow. It uses just that technique.