How do I make table cell borders visible in design view, DW CC2021?

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December 19, 2021
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I have moved to DW CC from CS6. In design view in CS6, table cells showed dashed borders, so it was clear where they were. While I didn't want actual borders in the finished product, the dashed view was very helpful for things like seeing cells to merge them, and where to put the cursor to add data. In DW CC, my tables do not delineate cells in any visible way, the conent is just "floating in space". Is there a way to get the cell borders to show without putting actual visible borders on them?

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Nancy OShea

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Are you in Live view or Design view?

Use Ctrl + Shift + F11 to toggle views.

For best results, give your table a border of 1 while editing.

Change border value to 0 when you're done.

Also turn on Visual Aids from your View Menu (see screenshot.)

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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carol mcgannAuthor

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Unfortunately, "table borders" in design view options has been checked all along, and apparently doesn't do what I need. I am trying to get this to happen wtthout using code because my husband does most of the making of pages, and I don't want him anywhere near code if the page is ever to work again... So adding a temporary border won't do it, but could work well for others.

I have discovered that if you hold the control key and hover over cells, they get red borders, and you can select one or more and merge them, for example, or at least see where they are, and I think that may be enough if there isn't another solution.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

These days, we use CSS Flexbox layouts, not tables. Mainly because tables are not responsive on ALL devices. If you must use tables, it should be minimal and only for tabular data (charts & spreadsheets).

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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