table cellpadding and cellspacing in stylesheet

[Wim Roffal]

On my webpage (http://www.classiccat.net/index.htm) I tried to transfer the
cellpadding/spacing attributes to my stylesheet. However, somehow it doesn't
work. I tried to look it up on the internet, but it seems to me that I am
doing everything right, which is obviously not the case.

It concerns the tables in the alphabetic part of the page. I have there a
table-class "block" defined. It works fine in giving the tables their
background-color. But somehow the padding and spacing have no effect.

Please give me feedback.

Thanks,

Wim

[Wim Roffal]

Hi,
Just to be complete:

The relevant code from the html page is:
<table BORDER=0 width=100% class=block><tr class=kop><td colspan=3>

The relevant code from the stylesheet is
table.block
{ background-color:#e3e3fa;
font-size: 84%;
border-spacing: 0px;
}

TABLE.block TD { padding : 0px; }

Wim

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On my webpage (http://www.classiccat.net/index.htm) I tried to transfer the cellpadding/spacing attributes to my stylesheet. However, somehow it doesn't work. I tried to look it up on the internet, but it seems to me that I am
doing everything right, which is obviously not the case.

It concerns the tables in the alphabetic part of the page. I have there a
table-class "block" defined. It works fine in giving the tables their
background-color. But somehow the padding and spacing have no effect.

Please give me feedback.

Thanks,

Wim

[Jukka K. Korpela]

"Wim Roffal" <wi*************@nospamm-planet.nl> wrote:

border-spacing: 0px;

IE does not support the border-spacing property.

However, if you wish to set the spacing to zero, you can achieve the
effect by using
border-collapse: collapse;
which is fairly well supported.

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[Brian]

Wim Roffal wrote:

On my webpage (http://www.classiccat.net/index.htm) I tried to
transfer the cellpadding/spacing attributes to my stylesheet.

Please give me feedback.

Consider reading the thread that is merely days old, on the very topic
if translating table presentation attributes into css.

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[Brian]

Wim Roffal wrote:

The relevant code from the html page is:
<table BORDER=0 width=100% class=block><tr class=kop><td colspan=3>

The relevant code from the stylesheet is
table.block
{ background-color:#e3e3fa;
font-size: 84%;
border-spacing: 0px;
}

Quick answer: don't mix presentation html and css unless necessary. In
this case, you table needs only

<table cellspacing="0" class="block">

That will help with the spacing. Everything else that you want can be
done in css, which is probably the best place for it.

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