[snip] Could any one explain better. I need just the grid lines for the excel sheet. I already tried that <table border=1> but it shows the linings only to the valued cells. But i need to show the grid as in MS Excel. I tried TEXT/XML but i get the following error [/snip] http://evolt.org/node/26896 Part of the problem is that an empty table cell has no borders. To combat this you can test for a value and if it has none place a non-breaking space it ( ) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php