Firstly an apology. I may have dreamt I asked this question before or I could just be going mad but either way, I can't remember the answer!

Is there an easy way of creating a border for a text frame in VSD 7.0? I would like a 2 pixel border and the way I'm doing it at the moment is to create an over-sized shape behind the text frame. I'm sure there has to be an easier way?

TIA

Here's what I do. Put this code into an HTML box then just put your text on top of it.

Adjust width, height, px and color to your liking.

Eric, could you put "<p> here's some text </p>" within that div? Less chance for different browsers with margin/padding issues (IE) to mess it up. Do you group the text and html box?

Maybe it's just my luck, but I got the 'improper argument' warning whenever text boxes overlapped html boxes, so I avoid that now

Yes you can and it's probably the best thing to do.

Hi,
I did this a different way as I do not know HTML.. even though you guys have presented the information in a way that even I can understand..
I used the shape tool and dragged a rectangle around the text box that I created. I then made the fill properties white and gave it an effects property of "shadow", Colour black, and Style "Both".
I then highlighted the text and right click "Arrange", then click "Bring to Front"

This is by no means as clean as the solutions above but worked for me with no HTMl coding..

The result is a nice border around the text.. I tried using the "FRAME" object but I couldn't seem to change the frame bordert width...

The output from above can be viewed at: http://www.afrockhampton.com/timetable.html