Set cellpadding and cellspacing in CSS?

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.

3 years ago

Try, this will work out
table
{
border-collapse: collapse; / 'cellspacing' equivalent */
}

table td, table th
{
padding: 0; /* 'cellpadding' equivalent /
}

3 years ago

The CSS alternative for cellpadding would be:

td {

padding: 10px;

}

For cellspacing the CSS code would be:

table {

border-spacing: 10px;

}

3 years ago