HTML newbie needs help

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I’m a total newbie to HTML and need some help making a Notes app look good on the web. My biggest problem is I can’t get table borders to look right. In Notes they’re all just a single point wide and black. On the web they’re all really thick and inset no matter what I set in the table properties. I tried adding formatting to the Table and Cell HTML “Other” field, but no combination of tags has any effect whatsoever. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong but after searching all day I can’t find a single example. Everything I find either uses CSS or the table is done with pass-thru HTML. Is there any way to just add formatting directly to a Notes table to make it look the same on the Web as it does in Notes?

On a related note, is there a reference out there for people who aren’t HTML gurus and ONLY need to use HTML with Domino? I want to use Domino design elements as much as possible and just tweak them with HTML, I don’t want to get into hand crafting HTML pages inside a Domino structure. If I get to that point I’ll just use Dreamweaver or something.

Thanks,

Charles

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Subject: HTML newbie needs help

Stick this in the HTML Header of your form:

td{border:1px solid black;}

You should use CSS. CSS is your friend.

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Subject: RE: HTML newbie needs help

Thanks Oli. I put that in the “HTML Head Content” event and it gives me the black border I wanted, but it is surrounded by an outer raised border. Any idea how I can get rid of that?

I read a couple of CSS “tutorials” but got lost in all the HTML. I’m a visual kind of guy, I don’t want or need to be an HTML guru.

Thanks,

Charles

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Subject: RE: HTML newbie needs help

You’d need to be more descriptive. The table continues to have a raised border? Turn it off from within designer (i.e. set table borders to zero.)

Alternatively:

table{border:0px;}td{border:1px solid black;}

Tutorials are generally except as intros to the timeless principles of RTFM and trial & error.

If you want to put stuff up on the web and not have people vomit over their monitors when they see it, you both want and need to be a HTML (and CSS, Javascript, DOM, DHTML, XML, XUL etc. ad nauseum) demiguru, you just don’t realise it yet.

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Subject: RE: HTML newbie needs help

just go to the table properties and play with

the last tab @

table properties

border=1

here you can use the html attributes of

table

tr

td

regards