cellpadding definition in HTML/CSS ?

[Mark Richards]

For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel between the cell border and the text inside.
How do I specify this attribute in a <TD> resp. css ?

Mark

[Anne van Kesteren]

Mark Richards wrote:

For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel between the cell border and the text inside.
How do I specify this attribute in a <TD> resp. css ?

td{
padding:3px;
}

For cellspacing:
<http://annevankesteren.nl/test/examples/tweakers/post-855071.htm> (just
an example of course).

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Anne van Kesteren
<http://www.annevankesteren.nl/>

[Jim Dabell]

Mark Richards wrote:

For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel between the cell
border and the text inside. How do I specify this attribute in a <TD>
resp. css ?

The usual way:

td {
padding: 3px;
}

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Jim Dabell

[David Dorward]

Mark Richards wrote:

For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel between the cell
border and the text inside. How do I specify this attribute in a <TD>
resp. css ?

td { padding: 3px; }

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

[MH]

> For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel ....

How do I specify this attribute in a <TD>...

'cellpadding' is a table, not a cell attribute, so why not just start a new
1x1 table in the cell and set the padding to 3px;
<td>
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>3px padded cell</td></tr>
</table>
</td>

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MH

[David Dorward]

MH wrote:

'cellpadding' is a table, not a cell attribute, so why not just start a
new 1x1 table in the cell and set the padding to 3px;

(a) Becuase it uses an insane quantity of markup
(b) Becuase its a pain to manage
(c) Becuase it lies about the semantics of the data
(d) Becuase its much much easier with CSS.

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David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, MH wrote:

why not just start a new 1x1 table in the cell and set the padding
to 3px;

Do you *really* need to ask? No wonder that web design is thought to
be a baroque and illogical black art that just sometimes happens to
produce the desired visual result, caring nothing for the underlying
mess.

[Vigil]

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:56:33 +0100, Mark Richards wrote:

For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel between the cell
border and the text inside. How do I specify this attribute in a <TD>
resp. css ?

td#humbug {
padding: 3px;
}

<td id="humbug">whatever</td>

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[Neal]

"MH" <no****@nowhere.no> wrote in message
news:bt**********@news3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl...

For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel ....
How do I specify this attribute in a <TD>...
'cellpadding' is a table, not a cell attribute, so why not just

start a new 1x1 table in the cell and set the padding to 3px;
<td>
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>3px padded cell</td></tr>
</table>
</td>

I'm assuming this would be OK if, within your tabular data, you
had a cell which itself was a set of table data. Otherwise it's
kind of a long way around when CSS works so much easier.

[Barry Pearson]

Mark Richards wrote:

For a table cell I want to have a padding of 3 pixel between the cell
border and the text inside. How do I specify this attribute in a <TD>
resp. css ?

td.somestyle { padding: 3px; }

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Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/
http://www.ChildSupportAnalysis.co.uk/

[MH]

> .... Otherwise it's kind of a long way around when

CSS works so much easier.

I agree.
The OP asked how to do this using html or CSS, also in the group
news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html , there I gave him an answer for
the html part.

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MH