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The table element and elements that behave like a table through CSS (by the display: property) can benefit from the use of border-collpase. This property has two different possible values that allows you to render tables differently:


table {
border-spacing: 5px;
border-collapse: separate;
}



table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}


Possible Values

separate: This is the default value. All table cells have their own independent borders and there could be space between the cells.
collapse: When this is used, only one border and no space in between the cells is displayed.

Browser Support

Works in all browsers.