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Table's border-radius does not function as expected


I want to add a border radius around the entire table. But the following code is not working in both the latest versions of Firefox and Google Chrome.

table {
  border-spacing: 0;
  width: 600px;
  margin: 30px;
  border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
  border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
  -moz-border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 1px #CCCCCC;
}

table th:first-child {
  border-radius: 6px 0 0 0;
  -moz-border-radius: 6px 0 0 0;
  -webkit-border-radius: 6px 0 0 0;
}

table th:last-child {
  border-radius: 0 6px 0 0;
  -moz-border-radius: 0 6px 0 0;
  -webkit-border-radius: 0 6px 0 0;
}

table td:first-child,
.bordered th:first-child {
  border-left: medium none;
}

table th {
  background-color: #DCE9F9;
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(center top, #F8F8F8, #ECECEC);
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 bottom, from(#F8F8F8), to(#ECECEC), color-stop(.4, #F8F8F8));
  border-top: medium none;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8) inset;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);
}

table td,
table th {
  border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
  border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
  padding: 10px;
  text-align: left;
}
<table class="bordered">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th><label>Labels</label></th>
      <th><label>Labels</label></th>
      <th><label>Labels</label></th>
      <th><label>Labels</label></th>
      <th><label>Labels</label></th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><label>Value</label></td>
      <td><label>Value</label></td>
      <td><label>Value</label></td>
      <td><label>Value</label></td>
      <td><label>Value</label></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

JSFiddle


Solution

  • It works, this is a problem with the tool used: normalized CSS by jsFiddle is causing the problem by hiding you the default of browsers...
    See http://jsfiddle.net/XvdX9/5/

    EDIT:
    normalize.css stylesheet from jsFiddle adds the instruction border-collapse: collapse to all tables and it renders them completely differently in CSS2.1:

    Differences between the 2 models can be seen in this other fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/XvdX9/11/ (with some transparencies on cells and an enormous border-radius on the top-left one, in order to see what happens on table vs its cells)

    In the same CSS2.1 page about HTML tables, there are also explanations about what browsers should/could do with empty-cells in the separated borders model, the difference between border-style: none and border-style: hidden in the collapsing borders model, how width is calculated and which border should display if both table, row and cell elements define 3 different styles on the same border.