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Table Color on MACs
Here's a cross-platform question for you to ponder:
My tables appear with borders on Windows machines with a gray 3D border by default. However, on MAC machines, the borders are not 3D and appear in the color of the text set in the <body> tag. How do I make my table borders look the same on the MAC? I'm most concerned about the color at this point.
The browser is IE 5.0 on the MAC.
Thanks
My tables appear with borders on Windows machines with a gray 3D border by default. However, on MAC machines, the borders are not 3D and appear in the color of the text set in the <body> tag. How do I make my table borders look the same on the MAC? I'm most concerned about the color at this point.
The browser is IE 5.0 on the MAC.
Thanks
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raizon's solution works, but the table is 2D. It also forces 2D on the Windows platform. The border is a solid color. Is it at all possible to retain a 3D appearance across the board?
No. The systems render the borders differently. You can't force them to render the same.
The only way you can make them look the same is to create graphics, and use extra cells for them. But, as I said before, that's a major pain.
Look at it this way -- anybody who's using a Mac NEVER sees a table border as 3d. Yours won't look any different from any other table. It's also unlikely they'll see it on a PC -- and if they have a PC, they've probably figured out by now that the browsers don't work quite the same.
The only way you can make them look the same is to create graphics, and use extra cells for them. But, as I said before, that's a major pain.
Look at it this way -- anybody who's using a Mac NEVER sees a table border as 3d. Yours won't look any different from any other table. It's also unlikely they'll see it on a PC -- and if they have a PC, they've probably figured out by now that the browsers don't work quite the same.
And one more thing...
Does the border being different cause the page not to be usable? Does it change the content? Does it do anything other than make a very minor difference in how it LOOKS?
If it ain't functional, you fix it. If it's functional but you just don't like that it looks different -- get used to it. ;-) It's the web. You have LITTLE control over how things look.
Does the border being different cause the page not to be usable? Does it change the content? Does it do anything other than make a very minor difference in how it LOOKS?
If it ain't functional, you fix it. If it's functional but you just don't like that it looks different -- get used to it. ;-) It's the web. You have LITTLE control over how things look.
By increasing the border-width in the stylesheet it will give the border a 3-D effect on PC but I'm not sure about how MAC will be effected.
I do disagree with webwoman however on having LITTLE control over how things look. Thats why the CSS specifications were created. To give web designers more control over how things look.
If it were indeed true that we had little control over our design then why is it that the web consists of a vast variety of unique design accross the entire web. Some designers work purely with CSS while others rely on Graphics, the good designers utilize all their tools available to deisgn a site that is both functional and asthetically pleasing.
If I had to just "get used to it" because I couldn't get a design to look the way I want it to I probably wouldn't be in this business.
I'm sorry webwoman but I disagree.
Raizon
I do disagree with webwoman however on having LITTLE control over how things look. Thats why the CSS specifications were created. To give web designers more control over how things look.
If it were indeed true that we had little control over our design then why is it that the web consists of a vast variety of unique design accross the entire web. Some designers work purely with CSS while others rely on Graphics, the good designers utilize all their tools available to deisgn a site that is both functional and asthetically pleasing.
If I had to just "get used to it" because I couldn't get a design to look the way I want it to I probably wouldn't be in this business.
I'm sorry webwoman but I disagree.
Raizon
ASKER
For the answer, I see that raizon gave the syntax for the solution but webwoman gave me a valuable tip that tables are never 3d on the Mac. So who gets the points?
You still have little real control over how things look -- they could be using an old browser without style support, could be on an old, 15in, very dark monitor, could override the stylesheet, could be using a screen reader. They can turn off graphics, have the color on their monitor all wrong, not have any of th efonts you expect.
You can control it much BETTER, yes. Things have come a long, long way. But YOU don't control the size of the window, the browser version, the fonts (even if they're there to use). You SUGGEST -- it's up to the user/browser to take your suggestions or not. Most do -- but they don't HAVE to.
Compared to a PRINT document, where you control the color, paper, type, type effects, leading, kerning, graphics, position of everything on the page, etc. -- you have NO control over how a web page looks to the user.
You can control it much BETTER, yes. Things have come a long, long way. But YOU don't control the size of the window, the browser version, the fonts (even if they're there to use). You SUGGEST -- it's up to the user/browser to take your suggestions or not. Most do -- but they don't HAVE to.
Compared to a PRINT document, where you control the color, paper, type, type effects, leading, kerning, graphics, position of everything on the page, etc. -- you have NO control over how a web page looks to the user.
Give webwoman the points.
webwoman puts succintly what I keep trying to tell people: It ain't print!
Why is it that people keep focusing on making something look exactly the way they think it should instead of keeping CONTENT at the forefront of their minds?!
Why is it that people keep focusing on making something look exactly the way they think it should instead of keeping CONTENT at the forefront of their minds?!
ASKER
I know that web pages are rendered differently across different platforms and browsers. However, this deals with a special case and the customer wants that.
<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="1" style="border-color: #990000; border-width: 1px;">