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CHAPTER 8: Working with Tables > Adjust Cell Padding and Border Spacing
Adjust Cell Padding and Border Spacing
You can use padding to add space between the border and the contents of a cell. Padding can make table content more legible. You can use spacing to increase the distance between cell borders. Increasing the spacing can add emphasis to the borders when you have borders turned on. If you do not define padding and spacing properties, most browsers add 1 pixel of padding and 2 pixels of spacing by default. You can also set padding or spacing settings to 0 to remove them from your tables.
Adjust Cell Padding and Border Spacing
Set Cell Padding
In your style sheet, type td { } to define a td selector.
Note
To set the padding between the outer border of the table and the cells, you can define a table selector.
