<tr>
                <td height="24">
                </td>
                <td colspan="6">
                    <strong>ID#:</strong>
                    <asp:Label ID="lblIDNum" runat="server" Width="140px" Style="border-bottom: black 1px solid;"></asp:Label>
            </tr>

Whenever I do that, instead of having a border accross the whole label, I only have a line across where the text is, which looks like underline. How do I make it to have a border on the bottom across the whole label? I'm currently using visual studio 2005 with .net 2.0.

Check your output in the browser. I want to make sure, but I think a label is sent as a <span> tag correct?

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I checked the output in the browser and it doesn't work. I start reading more about CSS and I believe you are correct on that.

I also have similar codes in my other vb project and the labels showed perfectly. The only thing different between the 2 projects is the styles.css, which is in the project that the labels don't work correctly. The confusing thing is I didn't even applied the style.css to that project. I wonder if there something in the project that's causing that.

I think it may be a CSS thing. Different tags have different default settings, and I think <span> default behavior is to function as if the the display were set to inline. Inline elements typically have problems taking box model properties(margin, padding, etc.) and borders fall under that. These are also some of the yuckier problems to deal with when they go bad. First thing I'd try is setting the display of the span to block in your style sheet. In any case, I'd definitely use the CssClass property on your label, because if this one is going to be unfriendly we want to be able to isolate the css to apply only to that class. Otherwise we could break the site trying to get that one label to work. And that's bad. ;)

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<asp:Label> is converted into <SPAN> Tag at the client browser so that the border will appear till the character will come.

In place of using this with <asp:Label> use it with your <TD>, I guess you will achieve your purpose.

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okay, I've tried what you guys suggested and nothing worked. For testing I added a new page to the project that display correctly with the same code I copied from the other project and it displayed fine, but that's not what I want. So there is something in the project level that is doing the setting for me? I tried to exclude styles.css from the project and that didn't work.

I HATE when it does that.

Well, I'm glad it's working. This could be one of those "undocumented features". I once had a class in database applications where my program wouldn't work. I sat down with the instructor and we modified that thing until my program was character for character (at least visually) identical to his, and mine would never work. We emailed a copy of his code to my lab computer, swapped his files for mine and it worked fine. My instructor had a couple theories, but we never figured out what the problem was.

Anyone have an idea what could have done this?

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I'm still trying to make the project that doesn't display correctly to work. I still have no idea what could cause this.

It's 99% likely to be a bug that no one will ever understand or fix. But there is a 1% it proves to be one of the great insights into .NET and you'll have a meteoric and amazingly successful career.

...And I can say I knew you when

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