<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Negative 'border-spacing' values are ignored</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#separated-borders"> <meta name="flags" content="invalid"> <meta name="assert" content="The 'border-spacing' property ignores a negative value. In which case, the default 'border-spacing' value as specified in the user agent stylesheet will apply."> <style type="text/css"> #table1 { background: blue; border-spacing: -100px; } #table2 { background: orange; } td { height: 50px; width: 50px; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if the blue and orange squares have the same size.</p> <table id="table1"> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> <div> </div> <table id="table2"> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>