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So its a good thing it wasn' t posted here

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No, you have not quite grasped it.

Your entry in the CSS would read, basically,

table.imagebg {border:1 dashed #808080}

However as you want an image in the background,
you will need to add that as well

so
table.imagebg {border:1 dashed #808080;
background-image:url(images/image.gif);}

Then in your html., it will be as I said before,
exactly

You opening table tag will be

<table class=" imagebg" >
<tr><td>

You cannot have two opening table tags, so the
other stuff will go in there also

eg

<table class=" imagebg" border=" 1" width=" 100%" >

I really cannot go into a full explanation of
classes here. There is an intro to them in the CSS
tutorial at OutFront, if this makes no sense to
you I think a little time learning how to apply
classes in general will clarify things.

You need only one CSS. Having said that, styling
tables like this is not really something that is
much documented in CSS, since in theory by using
CSS you largely get rid of the need to use tables
for layout, reserving them for the display of
tabular data.

Also, while I do not mind answering by email, it
is really far better to post follow up questions
at the forum so that others can see and benefit
from them also.

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I have a tip for you too... (in my area of expertice) Please watch what you write in mails cause things like ' you haven' t quite grasped it' are not really professional to write down. So its a good thing it wasn' t posted here...
Also there are some more things you wrote down, I found quite strange but I will leave it at this.