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rules attribute (table)

Browser support:

Specifies which borders will appear between cells within a table.

This attribute has effect only when the border attribute is set as well.

JavaScript page for this attribute: rules. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

String that sets the type of border rules in a table.

One of the following values:

all

Borders on all rows and columns are displayed .

cols

Borders are only displayed between columns.

groups

Horizontal borders between all tHead, tBody, and tFoot objects; vertical borders between all col and colGroup objects are displayed.

none

Borders are not displayed.

rows

Borders are only displayed between rows.

Default: this attribute has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the rules attribute:

<table id="myTable" border="3px" rules="cols">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Fruit</th>
            <th>Cost</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Apple</td>
            <td>$5</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Pear</td>
            <td>$10.50</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>