Adding Borders to Tables in CSS

CSS Web Development Front End Technology

The CSS border property is used to define a border for an element. The syntax of CSS border property is as follows−

Syntax

Selector {
   border: /*value*/
}

Example

The following examples illustrate CSS border property−

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table {
   margin: 1em;
   border: 3px double green;
   border-right-style: dashed;
   border-left-width: 17px;
   border-bottom-color: orange;
}
td {
   font-size: 24px;
   border-right-style: dotted;
   border-width: 3px;
   border-right-color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>demo</td>
<td>text</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>goes</td>
<td>here</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Output

This gives the following output−

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table {
   margin: auto;
   caption-side: bottom;
   border: 2px dashed black;
}
td {
   border: 2px solid midnightblue;
   text-align: center;
}
td[colspan] {
   box-shadow: inset 0 0 10px lightblue;
   text-align: center;
}
caption {
   font-size: 16px;
   font-weight: bold;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2<Ranking</h2>
<table>
<caption>Men's ODI Player Ranking</caption>
<tr>
<th>Player</th>
<th>Rank</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Virat Kohli</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rohit Sharma</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Babar Azam</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ross Taylor</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">Sept2019</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>