Bug with IE and TABLE padding?

Hi there,

the following works perfectly in Opera and Netscape, but not IE. Is this a
known problem? I have a table defined with the following definition:

table {
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
width: 700px;
}

Within this table, I have a number of rows and columns, but the padding
attributes in the TABLE definition seem to be ignored by the individual TD
tags in HTML.

In Netscape/Opera the layout is as follows (use non-proportional font):

-----------------------------------
| | | | |
| |content |content | |
| | | | |
-----------------------------------

The first and last "columns" represents the padding of the table and not
actual columns.

In IE, it appears as follows:

-----------------------------------
| | |
|content |content |
| | |
-----------------------------------

The width of the columns is slightly off in the IE version. I've tried
adding a margin to the TD of the first column in an IE-specific stylesheet,
but that didn't work...can anyone suggest anything?

Cheers in advance,
Kieran

> The width of the columns is slightly off in the IE version. I've tried

adding a margin to the TD of the first column in an IE-specific stylesheet, but that didn't work...can anyone suggest anything?

Emergency over, have found a workaround that seems to hold at the moment.
Cheers,
Kieran