Try something like this: <table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#00f"> <tr bgcolor="#fff"> <td>Hey<hr>Thank</td> </tr> </table> Code (markup): You might need to force all of the other tr's and td's to have the #fff bgcolor as well with multiple cells.
<table class="mystyle"> <tr> <td>hello</td> </tr> </table> and then in your style sheet set a border for your table and for your cells table.mystyle {border:1px solid blue} table.mystyle td {border:1px solid blue}
If you want border around all cells, you probably will need collapsing borders: table.mystyle {border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid blue;} J.D.