Border-collapse property and Dreamweaver.

Question

Hello. I'm just beginning to learn HTML and CSS. I'm starting on a single player battleship game and am laying out the tables. I'm having trouble getting borders to collapse via dreamweaver. I've got two tables contained within a div. The tables look like this:
  <table border="1" class="player">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th colspan="10" class="tableHeader">Player</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
      </tr>
     <!--Empty table data continues, omitted for brevity. Note that each table data tag above contains a non-breaking space, but isn't displayed in this forum post.-->
    </tbody>
  </table>
The style sheet modifying the table looks like this:
table, td, tr {
          border: 1px solid black;
          padding: 0px;
          border-collapse: collapse;
table {
          float:left;
td, tr {
          width: 25px;
          height: 25px;
In the browser, the tables are collapsing just fine:
In Dreamweaver, they're not:
Since the tables aren't collapsing properly, they both won't fit in the div which contains them, shown as the dotted line above.
Omitting the border="1" attribute doesn't change anything; I kept it since the textbook I'm reading recommends keeping it even when using a CSS border.
Any help would be appreciated. The code works fine in a browser, but I'd like to be able to view the project accurately while I work on it in Dreamweaver. I'm using CS 5.5.

Answer 1

So, this is my first day using this software, so I apologize if this should have been obvious, but the site displays as it does in the browser upon selecting "live view." Should I always expect to use the live view option?