[Ur] [Bulk] Re: Lack of cell borders with WebKit

Manu chompmotte at yahoo.fr
Tue Oct 6 09:28:38 EDT 2009


Adam Chlipala wrote:
> Darin Morrison wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Adam Chlipala 
>> <adamc at impredicative.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> nitralime wrote:
>>>    
>>>> I didn't get this error in Safari 4.0.3.
>>>> However, the borders around the grid elemets
>>>> are missing!
>>>>       
>>> I have no idea how to deal with this, and it's infeasible for me to 
>>> test
>>> anything on a Mac, so I'll ignore this for now.
>>>     
>>
>> There are Linux browsers available that use webkit.  I think you can
>> also just use webkit itself on Linux as an extremely barebones
>> browser.  That should be a good approximation of using Safari on a
>> Mac.
>>   
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I've now replicated the problem in 
> Midori.  Thankfully, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with 
> JavaScript; static versions of these tables also lack cell borders.  
> WebKit seems to ignore the "border-style" CSS atrribute for <th> and 
> <td>.  Does anyone know if this is a bug or if it is in line with CSS 
> standards?
>
>

I always assumed that the standards implied that border-style was the 
only required border attribute (color defaulting to black and width to 3px).
It does not seem to be the case in WebKit. Just state everything 
explicitely like this:

border: 1px solid  #000;

that works fine in Safari

Manu


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