If you remove this you need to adapt the theme accordingly. The empty td, does something it has a CSS class associated that includer the left border of the window. As Antoine mentioned you can create your own Renderer (and if you build a cool one, please share it). See the reference documentation, This very specific markup is built by the following class: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/portal/tags/JBoss_Portal_2_6_0/theme/src/m... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060729#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...