Hopefully this is an easy one but I have not found a solution. I want to put space between columns on a table.
Example
| Cell |<- space ->| Cell |
It is work for me
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 0px 3px;
What about just adding an empty cell that works as a spacer? You could use the col-tag as stated above to give the empty cells a certain width
<col/>
<col style="width:20px"/>
<col/>
<col style="width:20px"/>
<col/>
<tr>
<td>Data</td>
<td>& nbsp;</td>
<td>Data</td>
<td>& nbsp;</td>
<td>Data</td>
</tr>
Or if you want to do more with them, just add classes to them instead of usin inline styling...
Josh's answer doesn't work if you already have borders around your cells, like me.
I solved the problem by shifting the whole table slightly to the left, using "position: relative; left: -10px". I combined this with cellspacing on the table.
<div id='sandbox'>
<table cellspacing='10'>
<tr>
<td class='smoothBox'>
...
</td>
<td class='smoothBox'>
...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
and the css:
#sandbox {
float: left;
position: relative; /* move the whole sandbox */
left: -11px; /* slightly to the left */
width: 950px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding: 1px;
text-align: left;
}
#sandbox table {
float: left;
width: 100%;
}
#sandbox td {
width: 300px;
vertical-align: top;
}
This is what works for me, I hope it may help you too.
It is may be what are you loking for:
You can use two values: the first is the horizontal cellspacing, the second the vertical one.
<table style="border-spacing: 40px 10px;">
Did you try using col grouping?
<table>
<colgroup>
<col class="right-padding" />
<col class="right-padding" />
<col />
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
How about giving each table cell a transparent border? I am pretty sure this will do it for you...
table td {
border:solid 5x transparent;
}
And you can only apply it horizontally like so...
table td {
border-left:solid 10px transparent;
}
table td:first-child {
border-left:0;
}
Here's a complete working demo of what I believe you are trying to accomplish...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
table {
border: 1px solid black;
}
table td {
background: yellow;
border-left:solid 10px transparent;
}
table td:first-child {
border-left:0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>9</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I do not believe IE6 supports the CSS :first-child, so here is a workaround for that...
<!–-[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
table td {
border-left: expression(this.previousSibling == null ? '0' : 'solid 5px transparent');
}
</style>
<![endif]-->