# Css noob - emulating tables

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-noob-emulating-tables/216727>\
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**Created:** [February 20, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-noob-emulating-tables/216727 "2007-02-20T02:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![rumoroso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@rumoroso](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rumoroso)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-noob-emulating-tables/216727/1 "2007-02-20T02:12:28Z")

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please forgive my lack of coding skills, but I’m trying to transition to building sites without frames and tables… so I’m trying to build something like this:  
[http://rumoroso.com/testing/](http://rumoroso.com/testing/)

this is what i have so far…  
[http://rumoroso.com/css/](http://rumoroso.com/css/)

if you look at the code on the page… i’m sure you will find many errors, but I guess the main thing I’m trying to figure out is how to make the simple 3D border on each box. I have gifs for each corner of the border, but maybe I’m going about this the wrong way… any help would be appreciated…

oh and if I want to easily recreate the content boxes (adding more under) how do i streamline this?