Yesterday, a student asked me about problems validating a web page that included the bordercolor attribute in a table tag. As the textbook notes (page 89), this attribute was never part of the official HTML standard, so it’s not even deprecated. If you want your code to validate, you’ll have to leave it out. But as an alternative, you can sneak in some formatting using Cascading Style Sheets (which we’ll be covering later in the semester). You can do this something like this:

<table style="border-width: 1px; border-color: #999999" ... >