[thelist] Using CSS to disable table tag's cellspacing attribute

Sarah Adams sarahwbs at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 14:16:23 CST 2009


> My client has a webpage that I am not allowed to edit, yet contains a 'cellspacing=2' attribute in a table tag that needs to be removed.
> 
> I've looked at using expressions, but there doesn't seem to be a CSS equivalent that I could use to 'inherit' the attribute. 
> 
> I've also tried using some javascript to remove it, but couldn't get it to work, and I guess it's less than ideal in terms of useability.
> 
> Unless someone has another idea, I'm thinking I've possibly hit a dead end on this one?

Try this:

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

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