Vertical Align text in a table cell with padding

Question

I have a table with cells that have top and bottom padding of 10px. I would like to vertically align the text in these cells to the bottom, which won't work with the padding rule applied. Any suggestions?

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/t520n0z4/1/

HTML Code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td class="paddedCell">Name</td> <!--text should be aligned to the bottom here -->
    <td class="cell">Address</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="paddedCell">Email</td> <!-- text should be aligned to the bottom here -->
    <td class="cell">Phone</td>
  </tr>
</table>

CSS Code

table {
  border: 1px solid #000;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

tr {
  border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
}

.paddedCell {
  padding: 10px 0;
  vertical-align: bottom;
  border-right: 1px solid #000;
}

.cell {
  vertical-align: bottom;
}

Answer 1

A solution instead of using padding you can set height to tr :

 table { border: 1px solid #000; border-collapse: collapse; } tr { height: 40px;/*add height*/ border-bottom: 1px solid #000; } .paddedCell { /*padding: 10px 0; remove padding */ vertical-align: bottom; border-right: 1px solid #000; } .cell { vertical-align: bottom; } 

 <table> <tr> <td class="paddedCell">Name</td> <td class="cell">Address</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="paddedCell">Email</td> <td class="cell">Phone</td> </tr> </table>