Here is a follow up to the cellpadding and cellspacing post I made a while back. The cellpadding and cellspacing can be completely controlled in CSS. I realized today; I spoke only about collapsing the borders and not creating spacing (or the equivalent of cellspacing equal to something other than 0).


Here are some HTML4 and CSS/XHTML equivalents:

HTML4:

 CSS:
table { border-collapse: collapse; }
table tr td { padding: 0px; }



HTML4:
 CSS:
table { border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 2px; }
table tr td { padding: 0px; }



HTML4:
 CSS:
table { border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 2px; }
table tr td { padding: 2px; }



You may want to place these definitions into a CSS class so you can quickly reference your table definition in XHTML:



CSS:
table.info { border: 1px solid #ccc; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 2px; }
table.info tr th { font-weight: normal; text-align: right; }
table.info tr td { font-weight: bold; padding: 2px; }




HTML:

  
First Name:
Chris
  
Last Name:
Schuld

Here is what it will look like: