Create a Collapsed Border in HTML

We use border-collapse property to create a collapsed border in HTML. The border-collapse is a CSS property used to set the table borders should collapse into a single border or be separated with its own border in HTML.

Border-collapse property has four values: separate, collapse, initial, inherit.

With the value collapse

If you pass collapse as a value of the border-collapse Property, the borders of the table are simply collapsed into a single border. Following is the syntax to create a collapsed border in HTML.

border-collapse: collapse;

Example 1

In the example given below we are trying to create a collapsed border in HTML ?


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
   <style>
      table,
      tr,
      th,
      td {
         border: 1px solid black;
         border-collapse: collapse;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Tables in HTML</h2>
   <table style="width: 100%">
   <tr>
      <th>First Name </th>
      <th>Job role</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Tharun</td>
      <td>Content writer</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Akshaj</td>
      <td>Content writer</td>
   </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

Example 2

Let's see another example with collapse as a value to the border-collapse Property ?


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <style>
      table {border-collapse: collapse; }
      table, td, th { border: 1px solid blue; }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h1>Technologies</h1>
   <table>
      <tr>
         <th>IDE</th>
         <th>Database</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>NetBeans IDE</td>
         <td>MySQL</td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

With separate as the value

If we create a collapsed border by passing separate as a value of the border-collapse Property, the individual cells will be wrapped in separate borders.

border-collapse:separate;

Example 1

In the example given below we are trying to create a separate collapsed border in HTML.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
   <style>
      table,tr,th,td {
         border:1px solid black;
         border-collapse:separate;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Tables in HTML</h2>
   <table style="width: 100%">
      <tr>
         <th >First Name </th>
         <th>Job role</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td >Tharun</td>
         <td >Content writer</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td >Akshaj</td>
         <td >Content writer</td>
      </tr>
      </table>
</body>
</html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

Example 2

Let's see another example with separate as a value to the border-collapse Property ?


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <style>
      table {
         border-collapse: separate;
      }
      table,
      td,
      th {
         border: 1px solid blue;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h1>Technologies</h1>
   <table>
   <tr>
      <th>IDE</th>
      <th>Database</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>NetBeans IDE</td>
      <td>MySQL</td>
   </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

With initial as the value

If you pass initial as a value of the border-collapse Property, it is set to its default value i.e. separate. Following is the syntax, which uses initial attribute of the border-collapse property in HTML.

border-collapse:initial;

Example

Given below is an example, which uses initial attribute of the border-collapse property in HTML.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
   <style>
      table,tr,th,td {
         border:1px solid black;
         border-collapse:initial;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Tables in HTML</h2>
   <table style="width: 100%">
      <tr>
         <th >First Name </th>
         <th>Job role</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td >Tharun</td>
         <td >Content writer</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td >Akshaj</td>
         <td >Content writer</td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>
Updated on: 2022-10-18T10:50:33+05:30

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