Reduce spacing in HTML output using PHP

Question

This seems like something simple so I must be missing something, but I am having issues reducing the spacing between table rows in the output from the following:

  <table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="100">
                <th width="100px;"></th>
                <tbody id="ajax_res">
                    <?php
                        include 'db_connect.php';
                        $query = "SELECT INSERT_DATE,LINE_TEXT FROM DATA_TAB ORDER BY INSERT_DATE DESC";
                            $result = mysql_query($query);
                            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
                            {
                                $insert_date = $row['INSERT_DATE'];
                                $line_text = $row['LINE_TEXT'];
                                echo  "<tr height='10'><td>".$insert_date."</td>";
                                echo  "<td align='left' width='nowrap' style='padding:0 25px 0 25px;'>".$line_text."</td></tr>";
                            }
                    mysql_close($con);
                ?>
                </tbody>
            </table>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The use of cellspacing="100" is what is causing your table to bloat.

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On a side note, your HTML tags should be using double quotes, not single quotes and your TH tags need to be inside TR tags. Here is what I came up with while looking for your original issue.

<style type="text/css">
    table, tr, td, tbody {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
    }

    table {
        width: 100%;
    }

    td {
        padding: 5px;
    }

    .date {
        text-align: center;
    }

    .text {
        text-align: left;
        padding: 0px 25px;
    }
</style>
<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Date</th>
        <th>Text</th>
    </tr>
    <tbody id="ajax_res">
<?php
include 'db_connect.php';
$query = 'SELECT INSERT_DATE,LINE_TEXT FROM DATA_TAB ORDER BY INSERT_DATE DESC';
$result = mysql_query($query);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    $insert_date = $row['INSERT_DATE'];
    $line_text = $row['LINE_TEXT'];
    echo
        "\t\t", '<tr>', "\n",
        "\t\t\t", '<td class="date">', $insert_date, '</td>', "\n",
        "\t\t\t", '<td class="text">', $line_text, '</td>', "\n",
        "\t\t", '</tr>', "\n";
}
mysql_close($con);
?>
    </tbody>
</table>

Answer 2

尝试删除或减少表的cellspacing：

<table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="10">