In-correct html Options

[B Blackett]

Please can you tell me what this should be as it is not correct html.
<td colspan="2">
<table border="1" bordercolor="#FFCC00" style=
"background-color:#FFFFCC" width="100%" cellpadding="3"
cellspacing="3"

[Jai]

Please can you tell me what this should be as it is not correct html.
<td colspan="2">
<table border="1" bordercolor="#FFCC00" style=
"background-color:#FFFFCC" width="100%" cellpadding="3"
cellspacing="3"

You're miles away.

Try this http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

Come back when you have had another try and we can sort something out

[B Blackett]

The below was copied from w3schools tables instructions but does not validate correct, it is the only thing wrong on the whole site.
I know people give there time free on forums but the advice is not much help, thanks anyway.

Please can you tell me what this should be as it is not correct html.
<td colspan="2">
<table border="1" bordercolor="#FFCC00" style=
"background-color:#FFFFCC" width="100%" cellpadding="3"
cellspacing="3"

You're miles away.

Try this http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

Come back when you have had another try and we can sort something out

[Frederiek]

Then post the url to your page, so we can see the whole thing.

It might have to do with the DOCTYPE you use.
If it's HTML5, then you are supposed to use CSS instead of table attributes.

[added]
A simple search returns a useful list of equivalents at http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Presentational..._and_attributes .

This post has been edited by Frederiek: Jan 6 2014, 11:12 AM

[pandy]

Which goes to show w3schools.com isn't always to be trusted.

That said, the only thing not valid in the above (provided the the closing tags are were they should be) is the bordercolor attribute. It doesn't exist. You need to use CSS for that. To do that you probably need to read up about the CSS table model, because with CSS you define the borders of all the table elements separately and a border color applied to TABLE would only affect the borders of TABLE, not the ones of the individual cells. Even if you don't want to do it all with CSS, it would be better to move everything about borders to CSS in case some browser out there gets confused by a mix of CSS and HTML borders.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html