Jon, Thanks for your explanation about my second question. My mind is clearing... Does anyone know the answer to the first one? <snip> As illustrated in this test: http://dbaron.org/css/test/shortborder When I read the CSS2 Reference (Section 8.5.4) I interpret it to mean that the first and second lines in this test should have black borders. Opera 6 agrees, but Explorer 5.2.3, Firebird 0.7 and Mozilla 1.4 don't; neither does David Baron. I would have to assume that they're right and I'm lost. Is it possible that for border-color to appear in a stylesheet there are only 5 acceptable forms 1) border-color-top: value; 2) border-color-right: value; 3) border-color-left: value; 4) border-color-bottom: value; 5) border-color: value value value value; but NOT ALLOWED border-color: value; for all sides? <snip> Thanks ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL-REMOVED]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/