CSS horizontal table cell spacing: how?
Question
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 |<- space ->| Cell |
An important point is that I do not want space on the edges. There is a border-spacing property but it is not supported in IE (6 or 7) so that is no good. It also puts space at the edges.
The best I have come up with is to put padded-right: 10px on my table cells and add a class to the last one to remove the padding. This is less than ideal because the extra space is part of the cell not outside it. I guess you could do the same thing with a transparent border?
I also tried using jQuery:
$(function() {
$("table > tbody > tr:not(:last-child").addClass("right-padding");
});
but even on tables that are only ~100 rows in size this was taking 200-400ms in some cases, which is too slow.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
To those suggesting columns they do not work. Try this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
table { border: 1px solid black; }
td { background: yellow; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<col style="padding-right: 30px;">
<col style="padding-right: 30px;">
<col>
<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>
9 answers
solution1
20 2009-03-18 20:58:15
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]-->
solution2
11 2012-03-05 15:21:49
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;">
solution3
8 2009-03-17 22:07:16
try using col s
example
<table>
<col style="padding-right:20px;" />
<col style="padding-right:30px;" />
<col />
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
cols also support classes :)
hope this helps
Darko
EDIT: To clarify a col is an element declared at the top of the table to influence entire columns. The first col element will influence the first column, the second col = second column and so on. They can be grouped in colgroups if you wish to assign the same style to more than one column.
EDIT2: After some more research it turns out that the only reliable styles you can set on a col element are:
- border
- background
- width
- visibility
No margin or padding. Bugger! Would setting the width of the columns explicitly solve your problem?
solution4
2 2009-03-17 22:10:43
You could also consider using a series of fixed width divs floated left with margins. This might give you a bit more control over the element styling.
.row div {
margin-right: 10px;
float: left;
width: 50px;
}
<div class="row">
<div>Cell One</div>
<div>Cell Two</div>
<div>Cell Three</div>
</div>
solution5
2 2012-01-06 15:20:36
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.
solution6
1 2015-01-25 09:47:41
这对我有用
border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 3px;
solution7
1 2009-03-17 22:06:51
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>
solution8
0 2009-03-18 07:01:58
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...
solution9
-1 2011-07-14 13:58:41
The Josh's answer is quite good, but in my opinion needlessly complicated. When you set the table borders to "hidden" and collapse mode to "collapse", the borders on the outer edges of columns will be eliminated, just as required.
Working example:
Stylesheet:
table#my_table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-style: hidden;
}
table#my_table td {
border-left: 15px solid transparent;
border-right: 15px solid transparent;
}
HTML:
<table id="my_table">
<tr>
<td>A1</td>
<td>A2</td>
<td>A3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B1</td>
<td>B2</td>
<td>B3</td>
</tr>
</table>
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