Border color doesn't work

It isn't you, Sharon1973. You're not doing anything wrong.

It's actually a combination of the toolbar that generates the table not doing what it's supposed to and Firefox doing exactly what it's supposed to. You ARE using Firefox, right?

Without getting too technical: International standards are created for all computer languages so that different computers and applications can play nice together. Software companies follow the standards, everything works more or less they way it should. This leads to software users who are generally happy and programmers that are somewhat less cranky.

However, there are some companies (microsoft) that have a history of ignoring these standards for their own purposes and getting other people to also ignore these standards through coercion, marketing, etc.

Unfortunately, what you're seeing is a result of this. The folks at Firefox being the rebels they are, created a browser that adheres to the international standards. The toolbar is creating the tables with a Microsoft-only syntax.

All is not lost however if you're feeling a bit daring:

When you have the table creation window up and select a bordercolor, a value will be written to the box labelled style. Change that value from this:

to this:

border:4px solid #339933;

Keep the numbers the same, just change the other stuff. Below are two tables. The bottom one should have a red border.

Actually I have IE 7.....does it have the same problems as FireFox? I'll try your fix in a bit when I have more time.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm glad it wasn't me! I was beginning to feel a bit stooopid.

For your entry on Monday, Oct. 30,  the table has a border defined to be 0 pixels wide:

border: 0px 

 Change that to a non-zero number and the border should show up.