Applying borders to a single table cell when using border-collapse

Answer 1

border-collapse means the td's don't actually have some of their borders. You'll have to find some other way to do it. Giving the table a background and taking away all borders but leaving the td margins gives a nice border. Then setting a border would give an internal border, I believe. Would that work?

Answer 2

Won't be possible using border-collapse. You could work around the problem somewhat though, for example by doing this:

<td class="special"><div>Two</div></td>

Then applying a style like this:

.special div {
    border: 2px solid #f00;
    margin: -2px;
}

What (hopefully) will happen is the div inside the td will expand outward by 2 pixels and cover the black border with a red border.