If I want borders around all my <td>'s, but want a class called "navigation" to not have a border, is there a way to assign the class only to the surounding table? CSS doesn't make sense if I have to assign each and every td to the class navigation so I know there is a way.

In other words, what is to do to use

<table class="navigation">
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>c</td>
</tr>
</table>

instead of

<table>
<tr>
<td class="navigation">a</td>
<td class="navigation">b</td>
<td class="navigation">c</td>
</tr>
</table>

[CSS]
td
{
border: 1px solid #000000;
}

.navigation
{
border: 0px;
}
[/CSS]

Your css file should look like this Use shorter class names easier to add into html pages!(add your own font info)

table.navigation {border: o}
table {border: 10px}

then to insert into your html type

table class="navigation" <tr>...and ontinue with your table as normal

This now means you have two table tags one has a border (table) and the other doesn't (table class="navigation")

I don't want a border around the table, but around the <td>'s so that doesn't really help. Furthermore a classname should always represent the meaning so there is no need to shorten it. As for the insertion: I'm using PHP anyway

So isn't there a way to get this done? Probalby with *>.navigation or something. I'm sure there is a way to asign the same border (which shall be none) to the table aswell as to the td's inside of it.

i'm really not sure about this and dont have time to try but wouldnt it work if you did

<table id=navigation>
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>c</td>
</tr>
</table>

and in your css,

#navigation td {CSS RULE}

like i said really unsure about it and still dont know alot about CSS so sorry if its wrong..