17.4.3 bottom

This element specifies the border which shall be displayed at the bottom of the current table cell. The appearance of this table cell border in the document shall be determined by the following settings:

• If the net tblCellSpacing element value (17.4.44;17.4.43;17.4.45) applied to the cell is non-zero,
• then the cell border shall always be displayed
• Otherwise, the display of the border is subject to the conflict resolution algorithm defined by the
• tcBorders element (17.4.66) and the tblBorders element (17.4.39;17.4.38)

If this element is omitted, then the bottom of this table cell shall not have a cell border, and its border can use the table’s border settings as appropriate.

[Example: Consider a table in which the first

cell in the first row specifies a bottom

cell border

R1C1

R1C2

R2C1

R2C2

This bottom cell border is specified using the following WordprocessingML:

<w:tc>
  <w:tcPr>
    …
    <w:tcBorders>
      <w:bottom w:val="thinThickThinSmallGap" w:sz="24" w:space="0"
w:color="FF0000"/>
    </w:tcBorders>
  </w:tcPr>
  <w:p/>
</w:tc>

The bottom element specifies a three point border of type thinThinThickSmallGap. end example]

This element’s content model is defined by the common border properties definition in 17.3.4.