When the user first views the page, the normal CSS settings will apply, as indicated by the table row class attributes within the original HTML code. Add a section for JavaScript in your page head ...

A potential drawback is that when Word does the conversion, it creates code that contains XML and CSS. If you need to convert the table into pure HTML, you can use a free online Word-to-HTML-table ...

Pros and Cons of Tables vs. CSS May 3, 2004 - 7:13 pm 1 — by Ben Pfeiffer ...

So I'm working on making a web site as standards compliant as possible and have made use of the border-spacing property in my tables (of data) extensively. Of course, now I find out that IE doesn ...