extra space in a table

[Roedy Green]

I am looking for a way to group lines in a table by putting a bit of
extra space between SOME of the lines.

I found that <tr></tr> gives an nice thin horizonal sliver, but this
does not pass validation.

Other tricks I have tried leave a block in the first column the colour
of the table background.

I found that <hr> is confusing in a lined table, though it works fine
in one without borders. You have just too many lines.

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Complicit Bush-friendly media keeps mum. Rumsfeld confesses on video.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/...s_rumsfeld.htm

Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
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[Roedy Green]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:33:16 GMT, Roedy Green
<lo*****@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote or quoted :

I am looking for a way to group lines in a table by putting a bit of
extra space between SOME of the lines.

I found that <tr></tr> gives an nice thin horizonal sliver, but this
does not pass validation.

Other tricks I have tried leave a block in the first column the colour
of the table background.

I found that <hr> is confusing in a lined table, though it works fine
in one without borders. You have just too many lines.

here is a solution I came up with that is not bad:

table td.tablespacer /* used to create blank lines in tables */ {
background-color : transparent;
border : none;
}

To insert a blank line in a table use

<tr><td class="tablespacer">&nbsp;</td></tr>
--
Bush crime family lost/embezzled $3 trillion from Pentagon.
Complicit Bush-friendly media keeps mum. Rumsfeld confesses on video.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/...s_rumsfeld.htm

Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
See http://mindprod.com/iraq.html photos of Bush's war crimes

[mscir]

Roedy Green wrote:

I am looking for a way to group lines in a table by putting a bit of
extra space between SOME of the lines.

I found that <tr></tr> gives an nice thin horizonal sliver, but this
does not pass validation.

Other tricks I have tried leave a block in the first column the colour
of the table background.

I found that <hr> is confusing in a lined table, though it works fine
in one without borders. You have just too many lines.

How about this approach (in my test table I used 4 columns, that's why
the colspan is set to 4). It looks the same in my IE 6, Netscape 7.2,
Firefox 1.0.3, Mozilla 1.7.5 :

..spacer{
height: 1px;
line-height: 1px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

<tr>
<td class='spacer' colspan=4>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

MIke

[Christoph Päper]

Roedy Green schrieb:

I am looking for a way to group lines in a table by putting a bit of
extra space between SOME of the lines.

tbody {border-width: thick}