In an HTML table, the cellpadding and cellspacing can be set like this:
<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
How can the same be accomplished using CSS?
Basics
For controlling "cellpadding" in CSS, you can simply use padding on table cells. E.g. for 10px of "cellpadding":
td {
padding: 10px;
}
For "cellspacing", you can apply the border-spacing CSS property to your table. E.g. for 10px of "cellspacing":
table {
border-spacing: 10px;
border-collapse: separate;
}
This property will even allow separate horizontal and vertical spacing, something you couldn't do with old-school "cellspacing".
Issues in IE ≤ 7
This will work in almost all popular browsers except for Internet Explorer up through Internet Explorer 7, where you're almost out of luck. I say "almost" because these browsers still support the border-collapse property, which merges the borders of adjoining table cells. If you're trying to eliminate cellspacing (that is, cellspacing="0") then border-collapse:collapse should have the same effect: no space between table cells. This support is buggy, though, as it does not override an existing cellspacing HTML attribute on the table element.
In short: for non-Internet Explorer 5-7 browsers, border-spacing handles you. For Internet Explorer, if your situation is just right (you want 0 cellspacing and your table doesn't have it defined already), you can use border-collapse:collapse.
table {
border-spacing: 0;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
Note: For a great overview of CSS properties that one can apply to tables and for which browsers, see this fantastic Quirksmode page.
Default
The default behavior of the browser is equivalent to:
table {border-collapse: collapse;}
td {padding: 0px;}
Cellpadding
Sets the amount of space between the contents of the cell and the cell wall
table {border-collapse: collapse;}
td {padding: 6px;}
Cellspacing
Controls the space between table cells
table {border-spacing: 2px;}
td {padding: 0px;}
Both
table {border-spacing: 2px;}
td {padding: 6px;}
Both (special)
table {border-spacing: 8px 2px;}
td {padding: 6px;}
Note: If there is border-spacing set, it indicates border-collapse property of the table is separate.
Try it yourself!
Here you can find the old HTML way of achieving this.
table
{
border-collapse: collapse; /* 'cellspacing' equivalent */
}
table td, table th
{
padding: 0; /* 'cellpadding' equivalent */
}
Setting margins on table cells doesn't really have any effect as far as I know. The true CSS equivalent for cellspacing is border-spacing - but it doesn't work in Internet Explorer.
You can use border-collapse: collapse to reliably set cell spacing to 0 as mentioned, but for any other value I think the only cross-browser way is to keep using the cellspacing attribute.
This hack works for Internet Explorer 6 and later, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera:
table {
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 10px; /* cellspacing */
*border-collapse: expression('separate', cellSpacing = '10px');
}
table td, table th {
padding: 10px; /* cellpadding */
}
The * declaration is for Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and other browsers will properly ignore it.
expression('separate', cellSpacing = '10px') returns 'separate', but both statements are run, as in JavaScript you can pass more arguments than expected and all of them will be evaluated.
For those who want a non-zero cellspacing value, the following CSS worked for me, but I'm only able to test it in Firefox.
See the Quirksmode link posted elsewhere for compatibility details. It seems it may not work with older Internet Explorer versions.
table {
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 2px;
}
The simple solution to this problem is:
table
{
border: 1px solid #000000;
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0px;
}
table td
{
padding: 8px 8px;
}
Also, if you want cellspacing="0", don't forget to add border-collapse: collapse in your table's stylesheet.
Wrap the contents of the cell with a div and you can do anything you want, but you have to wrap every cell in a column to get a uniform effect. For example, to just get wider left & right margins:
So the CSS will be,
div.cellwidener {
margin: 0px 15px 0px 15px;
}
td.tight {
padding: 0px;
}
<table border="0">
<tr>
<td class="tight">
<div class="cellwidener">My content</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Yes, it's a hassle. Yes, it works with Internet Explorer. In fact, I've only tested this with Internet Explorer, because that's all we're allowed to use at work.
This style is for full reset for tables - cellpadding, cellspacing and borders.
I had this style in my reset.css file:
table{
border:0; /* Replace border */
border-spacing: 0px; /* Replace cellspacing */
border-collapse: collapse; /* Patch for Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 */
}
table td{
padding: 0px; /* Replace cellpadding */
}
TBH. For all the fannying around with CSS you might as well just use cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" since they are not deprecated...
Anyone else suggesting margins on <td>'s obviously has not tried this.
Simply use CSS padding rules with table data:
td {
padding: 20px;
}
And for border spacing:
table {
border-spacing: 1px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
However, it can create problems in older version of browsers like Internet Explorer because of the diff implementation of the box model.
From what I understand from the W3C classifications is that <table>s are meant for displaying data 'only'.
Based on that I found it a lot easier to create a <div> with the backgrounds and all that and have a table with data floating over it using position: absolute; and background: transparent;...
It works on Chrome, Internet Explorer (6 and later) and Mozilla Firefox (2 and later).
Margins are used (or meant anyways) to create a spacer between container elements, like <table>, <div> and <form>, not <tr>, <td>, <span> or <input>. Using it for anything other than container elements will keep you busy adjusting your website for future browser updates.
CSS:
selector{
padding:0 0 10px 0; // Top left bottom right
}
You can easily set padding inside the table cells using the CSS padding property. It is a valid way to produce the same effect as the table's cellpadding attribute.
table,
th,
td {
border: 1px solid #666;
}
table th,
table td {
padding: 10px;
/* Apply cell padding */
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Set Cellpadding in CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Row</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Clark</td>
<td>Kent</td>
<td>clarkkent#mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Peter</td>
<td>Parker</td>
<td>peterparker#mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>John</td>
<td>Rambo</td>
<td>johnrambo#mail.com</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Similarly, you can use the CSS border-spacing property to apply the spacing between adjacent table cell borders like the cellspacing attribute. However, in order to work border-spacing the value of border-collapse property muse be separate, which is default.
table {
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 10px;
/* Apply cell spacing */
}
table,
th,
td {
border: 1px solid #666;
}
table th,
table td {
padding: 5px;
/* Apply cell padding */
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Set Cellspacing in CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Row</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Clark</td>
<td>Kent</td>
<td>clarkkent#mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Peter</td>
<td>Parker</td>
<td>peterparker#mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>John</td>
<td>Rambo</td>
<td>johnrambo#mail.com</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Try this:
table {
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 10px;
}
table td, table th {
padding: 10px;
}
Or try this:
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table td, table th {
padding: 10px;
}
I used !important after the border-collapse like
border-collapse: collapse !important;
and it works for me in IE7. It seems to override the cellspacing attribute.
Say that we want to assign a 10px "cellpadding" and a 15px "cellspacing" to our table, in a HTML5-compliant way. I will show here two methods giving really similar outputs.
Two different sets of CSS properties apply to the same HTML markup for the table, but with opposite concepts:
the first one uses the default value for border-collapse (separate) and uses border-spacing to provide the cellspacing,
the second one switches border-collapse to collapse and uses the border property as the cellspacing.
In both cases, the cellpadding is achieved by assigning padding:10px to the tds and, in both cases, the background-color assigned to them is only for the sake of a clearer demo.
First method:
table{border-spacing:15px}
td{background-color:#00eb55;padding:10px;border:0}
<table>
<tr>
<td>Header 1</td><td>Header 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td><td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td><td>4</td>
</tr>
</table>
Second method:
table{border-collapse:collapse}
td{background-color:#00eb55;padding:10px;border:15px solid #fff}
<table>
<tr>
<td>Header 1</td><td>Header 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td><td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td><td>4</td>
</tr>
</table>
td {
padding: npx; /* For cellpadding */
margin: npx; /* For cellspacing */
border-collapse: collapse; /* For showing borders in a better shape. */
}
If margin didn't work, try to set display of tr to block and then margin will work.
I have a Wordpress Template installed so the table takes the style that was given. I managed to change tables color for background and text but I couldn't remove the frame around the table (border). I found a lot of related results but I couldn't find something that worked for me (I'm not that much experienced with CSS).
body {
background: #040404;
}
table.photos_table td {
background-color: #040404 !important;
color: white !important;
}
table.photos_table {
border: none !important;
border-collapse: collapse !important;
}
<table class="photos_table">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>food</td>
<td>drink</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pizza</td>
<td>soda</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
This is what I get as a result.
Any suggestions what could be wrong? Do I need an other option?
The border is in the <tbody>, so giving:
table thead, table tbody, table tfoot {border: none;}
Works...
Check for border attribute in style.css file.
I am assuming border has been assigned to either td or tr attribute in style.css file.
This should fix it.
I have a table in my HTML yet I only want vertical spacing as it doesn't look right with the 25px horizontally. I can see no attribute in HTML to do this so is it possible?
Thanks in Advance,
Dean
EDIT:
I have a table with cellspacing all the way around of 25px. I would only like vertical cellspacing of 25px.
the cellpadding attribute, which I assume you're talking about, will only take a number and use it as pixels between the cell wall and content. You'll have to come up with a workaround, depending on your layout you may want to use a <div> instead, or if there aren't any borders around the cells you can add style='padding-bottom:25px' to it to create the same effect.
Just add this in the < head > section, just after the head tag opening of your page:
This should do the work:
<style type="text/css">
td { margin: 25px 0px; } /* tells the table to have 25
px on top and bottom, zero px on left and right */
</style>
Cleaner <table> element solution (useful for in-lining styles).
table {
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 0 20px;
}
th {
background-color: blue;
color: white;
}
th, td {
width: 150px;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 5px;
}
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Vehicle <th>No. of Wheels <th>Rep (0-10)
<tr>
<td>Skateboard <td>4 <td>7
<tr>
<td>BMX <td>2 <td>6
<tr>
<td>Unicycle <td>1 <td>-1
I discovered this:
border-bottom: 25px solid transparent;
Be aware that IE6 has a problem with transparency.
I have a simple html table like this: http://jsbin.com/oxiyi
I want to have a border with color #990000 outside the entire table. So I have made a table outside the table and given it border color of #990000. But still I dont see a border color.
Use the border property with CSS style and give it the color. I got rid of the nested tables in your example as well.
<style>
td {
border: solid 2px lightgrey;
}
</style>
<table style="border: 5px solid #990000; border-collapse: collapse">
http://jsbin.com/odici
That preserves your borders on your cells...
Tables inside tables! Oh noes! My head hurts.
You should be glad that doesn't work, as it is awful markup and should be avoided at all costs. Looking at your HTML code I am noticing a lot of inline properties being set and lack of CSS being used. You should really read up on CSS, as the code you have right now looks more like the code that was being produced in 2000 rather than what we're doing nowadays. In short, however, you can get rid of your outer table and add a style declaration of border: 1px solid #990000; in the table to get the effect you want. This is just the tip of the iceberg, however, and you really should read up on CSS and valid markup before your website self implodes. :)
Probably because the outer table has border set to 0
Change border =0 to border=1
A better method would be to remove the outer table and add the border via CSS:
<table ... style='border: 1px solid #900'>
Better still, use an external stylesheet to style the table.
Several problems:
A <div> would be a better tool for
this job
Your outer table has bgcolor
specified, not bordercolor
Your outer table has border set to
0
You need to also include a <tr>
and <td> around the inner table to
make your HTML correct
Like this:
<table name='outerTable'>
<tr>
<td>
<table name='innerTable'>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You need to add two styles to the code:
Added "border-collapse: collapse" style to table tag
Added "border: 1px solid gray" style to all td tags
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table tr td {
border: 1px solid gray;
}
border-collapse: collapse
}
Try using the following code
tr .bordered{
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
}
the while calling it use
<tr class="bordered"></tr>
I can't tell you exactly why your tables are not interacting correctly without seeing your markup, but I do see a problem with your fundamental approach.
Instead of another table, wrap your table in a DIV tag like this:
<div style="border:solid 1px #990000;">
<your table>
</div>
This better adheres to modern standards for HTML/XHTML.
Without seeing your code, I can't tell you whether your inner table adheres to best practices or not.
Hope this helps
Create one custom css file in '/css ' dir, say 'local.css'
Add following code in marinelli.info file.
stylesheets[all][] = css/local.css
Try adding following css code in your custom css (i.e. local.css) file :
tbody {
border-top: 1px solid #CCC;
}
tr, tr.even {
background: #dedede;
}
table tr th {
background: #757575;
}
tr td, tr th {
border: 1px solid white;
}
table tr th, table tr th a, table tr th a:hover {
color: white;
}
Please clear cached data here- /admin/config/development/performance
Rgrds,
Given the following HTML page a horizontal line appears at the top of the table where the 1st row would have a 2nd and 3rd cell (if they were defined).
<html>
<head>
<Title>Test Page</Title>
<style type="text/css">
table {
margin:10px 0 10px 0;
padding:0;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
border-collapse: collapse;
border: 0;
}
td {
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
padding:5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Test Title</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sub Title</td>
<td>Sub Title</td>
<td>Sub Title</td>
</tr>
<table>
</body>
</html>
I would like the line (highlighted below) removed by modifying CSS only. This line appears in Firefox but not IE6.
Note that I cannot modify the HTML in any way as this is generated by a third party system (the example above is simply to highlight the issue). This third-party system only allows me to modify the CSS.
This will get it to render without the top border in Firefox:
table, td {
border: 1px #CCC;
}
table {
margin: 0;
border-spacing: 0;
border-style: none none solid solid;
}
* html table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
border-style: solid solid none none;
padding: 5px;
}
It also works fine in IE7 for me. If it breaks in IE6, use conditional comments or css hacks to revert it to the state it was in your own code for IE6 only.
EDIT: Your third party tool is generating bad/invalid markup which will give you a very large browser compatibility/css headache, if it is at all feasible, replace it or generate the html yourself
Technically speaking the first row should be marked up as
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Test Title</td>
</tr>
So I don't think you can acheive that using tables.
A css tip
margin: 10px 0;
Puts 10px at the top and bottom and 0 on the left and right
The empty-cells property may help you in this case.
table {
empty-cells:hide;
}
Then again, maybe not. Can you also explicitly turn off the border of the table rows?
Is using javascript an option? You could inject a non breaking space into the cell, that should draw the border.
Here is the solution for this problem that really works. I found this out after sooo long
The problem is with tbody tag.
Check the solution here:
http://www.dashplanet.com/firefox-displaying-border-top-of-table-how-to-hide-that-1px-top-border-table
From Firefox Colspan Border-COllapse Bug:
The obvious workaround is to just set
the colspan before the DOM has
finished loading, or at minimum,
before the table has finished
rendering. However, this requires that
we clutter our otherwise clean HTML
with inline tags, or have
prior knowledge of the number of
columns at the HTML generation stage.
I hope to find a more elegant
"non-invasive JavaScript" solution in
the future, but at the current time I
don't know of one. Simply setting the
table's "display" style to "none" and
then re-setting it back to "block" did
not do the trick.