>I want to implement Rick Strahl's idea of having each row be a table, and I need a border. But I don't like the double border around all the middle rows. Is there any way to remove just the top border.
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According to my CSS Reference you can specify the border-width property in the STYLE attribute of a table (e.g. STYLE='border-width:0px 1px 1px 1px'). This is supposed to be supported in Netscape 4 and IE 4, YMMV. The following chart explains the effect of using different numbers of values.

Number of Values        Effect
1                       All four borders set to value
2                       Top and bottom set to first value; right and left set to second
3                       Top set to first value; right and left set to second; bottom set to third
4                       Top, right, bottom and left set, respectively