Question

I have a horizontal ul li, the li element gets a 1 pixel black border. Two adjacent elements gets a 2 pixel border because the border from the left and right elements gets merged.

Is there any tricks to simulate the table border-collapse property for solving this?

Answer 1

Like this:

<ul>
    <li><a href="#">A Link</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">A Link</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">A Link</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">A Link</a></li>
</ul>

css:
​

ul, li {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    list-style:none
}

li {
    float:left;    
}    

​ul li a {
    display:block;
    padding:3px;
    border-top:1px solid #ff0000;   
    border-bottom:1px solid #ff0000; 
    border-right:1px solid #ff0000; 
}

ul li:first-child a {
    border-left:1px solid #ff0000
}