Problem with table margain

[rdruser]

Im having an issue with html and was hoping someone could offer a suggestion on how to correct the issue. What I want is to have the blue area (the pic is below) right next to the black border and not have white space on the top, left, and right sides. Below is the part in question and below that is the full code. Thanks in advance!

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Area in question

<table width="648" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; " colspan="9" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#000000">
This is where the part begins
<leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0">
<div align="center">
<center>
<table width=143 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111">

[edited by: tedster at 1:54 am (utc) on April 12, 2005]

[tedster]

In this snippet, you have some syntax trouble:

style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111"

should be ...

style="border-collapse: collapse;border-color:#111111"

I always suggest validating both html and css before trying to fix apprent rendering troubles. The problems often vanish when the mark-up is valid, and they drive you crazy otherwise.

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