# \[DW\] Creating a border around a Layout cell

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-creating-a-border-around-a-layout-cell/26305>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [July 21, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-creating-a-border-around-a-layout-cell/26305 "2003-07-21T21:33:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![h88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@h88](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/h88)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-creating-a-border-around-a-layout-cell/26305/1 "2003-07-21T21:33:44Z")

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Hi guys,

The subjects says it all, I’d like to create a 1px border around my Layout cell. Am using Dreamweaver MX, and a Layout view for my Tables and cells.

thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-creating-a-border-around-a-layout-cell/26305/2 "2003-07-21T21:58:40Z")

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er… try this

```php
<table width="100" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolorlight="#FFFFFF" bordercolordark="" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-creating-a-border-around-a-layout-cell/26305/3 "2003-07-21T22:02:23Z")

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thanks ahmed, what I needed. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-creating-a-border-around-a-layout-cell/26305/4 "2003-07-25T02:02:26Z")

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hmm, ahmed i have never used that bordercolordark and bordercolorlight, that makes it a lot easyer than using CSS. that would be the other way to do it, you can do some pretty cool stuff with CSS and tables.