table cellpadding
Hi, all.
Not really a big problem, but I was wondering how to initiate "cellpadding" but only on a particular cell? I'm, looking for a "margin" effect in only one so that text and images don't butt up against the edges. I know I can nest another table inside that cell (with a cellpadding value other than zero), but I was just wanted to check if there was some other tag that I wasn't aware of that can do this.
Thanks.
Megan posted this at 15:45 — 15th November 2002.
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There's no way to do this in html so you'll have to use CSS. Just create a class for your padded cell (Ha!!!), define some padding for it in your stylesheet, and apply the class to the cells you want to be padded. ANother way would be to enclose your cell contents in a div that has the padding applied to it - that's what I tend to do but I'm not sure if there's an advantage one way or the other.
Megan
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The Webmistress posted this at 16:29 — 15th November 2002.
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Don't do it with nested tables, that'll be bad coding and you'll end up in the padded cell!
Busy posted this at 21:51 — 15th November 2002.
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depending on how wide you want it you can also use
no matter how you do it, nested tables is about the only way you can get a similar result for all browsers (new and old) unless you make different style sheets per browser version and even then some ver5 and 6 have issues.
Just remember no one is going to be viewing your site with two different browsers at the same time so they wont know if it's slighty different
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