How to format html table with inline styles to look like a rendered Excel table?

html css border html-table

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Solution 1

table {
  border-collapse:collapse;
}

Solution 2

This is quick-and-dirty (and not formally valid HTML5), but it seems to work -- and it is inline as per the question:

<table border='1' style='border-collapse:collapse'>

No further styling of <tr>/<td> tags is required (for a basic table grid).

Solution 3

Add cellpadding and cellspacing to solve it. Edit: Also removed double pixel border.

<style>
td
{border-left:1px solid black;
border-top:1px solid black;}
table
{border-right:1px solid black;
border-bottom:1px solid black;}
</style>
<html>
    <body>
        <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
            <tr>
                <td width="350" >
                    Foo
                </td>
                <td width="80" >
                    Foo1
                </td>
                <td width="65" >
                    Foo2
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    Bar1
                </td>
                <td>
                    Bar2
                </td>
                <td>
                    Bar3
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr >
                <td>
                    Bar1
                </td>
                <td>
                    Bar2
                </td>
                <td>
                    Bar3
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

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citronas

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Updated on April 24, 2020

Comments

citronas about 4 years

I'm currently stuck setting borders in an html table. (I use inline styles for a better rendering in e-mail-clients) I have this piece of code:

<html>
    <body>
        <table style="border: 1px solid black;">
            <tr>
                <td width="350" style="border: 1px solid black ;">
                    Foo
                </td>
                <td width="80" style="border: 1px solid black ;">
                    Foo1
                </td>
                <td width="65" style="border: 1px solid black ;">
                    Foo2
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr style="border: 1px solid black;">
                <td style="border: 1px solid black;">
                    Bar1
                </td>
                <td style="border: 1px solid black;">
                    Bar2
                </td>
                <td style="border: 1px solid black;">
                    Bar3
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr style="border: 1px solid black;">
                <td style="border: 1px solid black;">
                    Bar1
                </td>
                <td style="border: 1px solid black;">
                    Bar2
                </td>
                <td style="border: 1px solid black;">
                    Bar3
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

It is rendered like this: alt text

I want the table to be rendered like Excel would render a table, with inner and outer border: alt text

Kyle over 13 years

Which browser are you using? in Chrome 6, looks as you want it here: jsfiddle.net/JceAc.

Hrvoje T over 5 years

I was looking for this. All other answers are with style, only this one is for `inline'. Thanks!
Mohsin almost 4 years

This should be marked as correct answer. As question is clearly about inline style.