One of the aims of this series is to highlight some stupid gotchas in support for CSS in the different browsers. Today's gotcha is table borders. Yes, yes, I said don't use tables. What I means is, don't use tables for layout. But you can use tables for, you know, tabular data. Like, for examples, lists of instruments and their bid and ask prices . But you should know that even when you use strict mode, Internet Explorer has slightly... eccentric... rendering behaviour for tables. Actually to be specific, it's IE7 only. <html> <head> <title>Table Borders</title> <style type="text/css"> table, td { border: 1px solid black; } td { height: 20px; min-width: 5px; } </style> </head> <body> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td>first cell</td> <td>se