Eliminating background lines from tables

[mlitch]

My goal seems simple: a dark green background to my table with lines alternating with a lighter green background. The problem is that I can't get rid of the areas to the left and right of each <td> where the dark green is bleeding through. I've tried setting the left/right border property to 0, the left/right margin property to 0, the left/right border property to 0; the border color to the lighter green—all with no results. The only thing that works is to use "cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'" with the <table> tag, but this also affects the vertical spacing, which I don't want to make any more compact. I can't figure out what I'm missing here.

 

Thanks.

[davej]

Is any other element inside the td?

[Ingolme]

You can use border-collapse on the table

 

I don't recommend having empty <td>s there just for spacing. If you want spacing use padding or margin.