By vinceandtigger on

Morning, following a post of mine yesterday, kindly answered by Keyz, I've now installed FCK editor to give me a bit of flexibility in formatting my content. That said, all is fine except - there is an outline around the page content and another stronger outline around the table I've used (table border set to 0) - like this http://www.weinstockfineart.co.uk/drupal5.1/
Would prefer to not have either, any ideas please ?
All help gratefully received :-)

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dnewkerk commented

Hey there again :) Good timing I was about to go to sleep :P

The lines you're seeing are being created by CSS, which is set to add visible borders to the tables in your site. Since you're using tables, the borders are showing up. You can turn the borders off in the CSS if you'd like, though since you should not use tables for layout in this way anyhow, the better way I'd suggest is to remove the tables and instead use either align="right" on your image, or a CSS float: right;. There's an Align option in FCKeditor's image properties window, so set that to right.

I would leave the table borders as is - tables are meant for showing "tabular data" not laying out your page (we used to misuse tables for that, but not these days)... as in a spreadsheet, leaving the borders makes a table, properly used, easier to read.

Also, make sure to install the Firebug extension for Firefox... www.getfirebug.com ... with it you can click the "Inspect" button, hover your mouse over any area of the page, and instantly see all of the HTML and CSS that is making it look the way it does.

-- David
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vinceandtigger commented

Hi David, Thanks for the advice. My HTML and CSS expertise is very limited so for now I've naughtily stuck to tables for layout as an easy solution. I've been in and hacked the theme CSS to produce a white border round the table, ie making it invisible. Once I'd established the maximum dimensions for the table to display alongside the left hand side bar (635 px) it became a little easier.
Thanks once again, much appreciated support, Vince