How will Google handle this way to design tables

ok or not ok

[le_gber]

Hi,
I use the following to create a table with a thin border separating the cells.

<table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#003366">
<tr>
<td class="sectitles">&nbsp;My title text</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="sectext" bgcolor="#dce8fa">My content text
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Basically you've got darkblue for the borders lighter blue for the title cell and even lighter blue for the content cell.

Now if I write in the content box using the same color as the bg table will Google pick up the different colors or will they think it's blue on blue text hence penalizing the site?

I don't use CSS because the css borders of the cells are too big (twice the size because it does a border for one cell and the next hence two borders one against the other)

Leo

[dougmcc1]

I think you're fine. Just don't do this:

<table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#003366">
<tr>
<td class="sectitles"><font color="#003366">&nbsp;My title text</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="sectext" bgcolor="#dce8fa"><font color="#dce8fa">My content text</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

[benc007]

Does Google look at CSS as well?

[netguy]

It would appear G is starting to look at css...
[webmasterworld.com...]

[le_gber]

Hi all,

thanks for your answers.

As I had to modify the ASP to PHP I also put a proper CSS in place ;)

Leo