How to use DOM to control cellpadding/cellspacing???

[tired&lonely]

Is there a way to control cellpadding or cellspacing of a table using some form of the following code?:

document.getElementsByTagName('table').item(#)...

Also, is there another form of this code that will eliminate just the top or bottom border of a table, maybe similar to this:

document.getElementsByTagName('table').item(5).topborder = "0"

[glenngv]

to eliminate top and bottom border:

document.getElementById('tbl').style.borderWidth='0px 2px 0px 2px'; //top right bottom left

to change cellpadding and cellspacing:

document.getElementById('tbl').cellPadding='2px'
document.getElementById('tbl').cellSpacing='3px'

where tbl is the id of the table.

[tired&lonely]

Hello glenngv,

The cellPadding and cellSpacing work nicely, but I can't seem to get the following to work:

document.getElementsByTagName('table').item(5).style.borderWidth='0px 2px 2px 2px';

...to eliminate the top border. Do I have the syntax correct? For my application, I can't reference the table by ID, so I must find some way to use getElementsByTagName('table') instead of document.getElementById('tbl'). Can it be done?

[ASAAKI]

not sure, but the way i know it is that it's just 'border', not 'borderWidth'

[ASAAKI]

oops, just checked it out. it's right, it works fine.

[tired&lonely]

ASAAKI, what works???!!! That's kinda vague. The following STILL isn't working for me, so what am I doing wrong?:

document.getElementsByTagName('table').item(5).style.borderWidth='0px 2px 2px 2px';

[ASAAKI]

Originally posted by tired&lonely
document.getElementsByTagName('table').item(5).style.borderWidth='0px 2px 2px 2px';

is working fine with me... i don't know what it's got against u...

[ASAAKI]

the only thing i can think of is that u might have gotten the wrong item number... maybe forgotten that js starts with 0, so that would be item(4) not (5) .... sorry if i'm wrong..

[tired&lonely]

Thanks, glenngv & ASAAKI. It does work - I just had to move it down past the other code lines affecting that same table - weird.