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I want border around table, tr and td

I'm not understanding why tr behaves differently. Why doesn't my code give a border around the rows too? I want a border around the table, tr and td (i.e. 3 levels of borders)

NOTE: My primary objective is not a workaround but to better understand css (i.e. if a workaround is required, I want the workaround in addition to an explanation of why my original code does not work!)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
  <title>
   THE TITLE
  </title>
  <style>
table, tr, td
   {
    border: 1px solid black;
   }
   td {
   	font-size: 26px;
   	color:red;
   }
  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <table class="property_list">
   <tr class="property_list_row">
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>2</td>
   </tr>  </table>
 </body>
</html>

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Gary

As the other question the TR tag does not have a css attribute of border
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tr.asp
FF and others respect it but IE does not (correctly so), so you have to use the border-collapse hack to make IE see it as a dimensionable object.

SAbboushi

ASKER

>> the TR tag does not have a css attribute of border
But neither does the TD tag
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_td.asp

So this doesn't explain to me why it works with TD but not TR

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Gary

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SAbboushi

ASKER

K thanks for your help. So is there a way to get the 3 levels of borders?

Gary

What do you mean 3 levels?

SAbboushi