Learn HTML Table Padding and Spacing

Tips (Total 4)

1. What is HTML Table Padding

2. What is HTML Table Spacing

3. How to create HTML Table - Cell Padding

4. How to create HTML Table - Cell Spacing

# Tips-1) What is HTML Table Padding

HTML tables can adjust the padding inside the cells, and also the space between the cells.

Full Example of HTML Table Padding

Cell padding is the space between the cell edges and the cell content. By default the padding is set to 0. To add padding on table cells, use the CSS padding property:

index.html

Example: HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
  border: 1px solid black;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
th, td {
  padding: 15px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Cellpadding</h2>
<p>Cell padding specifies the space between the cell content and its borders.</p>

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th> 
    <th>Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jill</td>
    <td>Smith</td>
    <td>50</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Eve</td>
    <td>Jackson</td>
    <td>94</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p><strong>Tip:</strong> Try to change the padding to 5px.</p>

</body>
</html>

Output should be:

# Tips-2) What is HTML Table Spacing

Cell spacing is the space between each cell.

Full Example of HTML Table Spacing

By default the space is set to 2 pixels. To change the space between table cells, use the CSS border-spacing property on the table element:

index.html

Example: HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
  border: 1px solid black;
}
table {
  border-spacing: 30px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Cellspacing</h2>
<p>Change the space between the cells with the border-spacing property.</p>

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th> 
    <th>Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jill</td>
    <td>Smith</td>
    <td>50</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Eve</td>
    <td>Jackson</td>
    <td>94</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Output should be:

# Tips-3) How to create HTML Table - Cell Padding

Cell padding is the space between the cell edges and the cell content.

By default the padding is set to 0.

Full Example of HTML Table - Cell Padding

To add padding on table cells, use the CSS padding property:

index.html

Example: HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
  border: 1px solid black;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
th, td {
  padding: 15px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Cellpadding</h2>
<p>Cell padding specifies the space between the cell content and its borders.</p>

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th> 
    <th>Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jill</td>
    <td>Smith</td>
    <td>50</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Eve</td>
    <td>Jackson</td>
    <td>94</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p><strong>Tip:</strong> Try to change the padding to 5px.</p>

</body>
</html>

Output should be:

To add padding only above the content, use the padding-top property. And the others sides with the padding-bottom, padding-left, and padding-right properties:

index.html

Example: HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
  border: 1px solid black;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
th, td {
  padding-top: 10px;
  padding-bottom: 20px;
  padding-left: 30px;
  padding-right: 40px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Cellpadding - top - bottom - left - right </h2>
<p>We can specify different padding for all fours sides of the cell content.</p>

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th> 
    <th>Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jill</td>
    <td>Smith</td>
    <td>50</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Eve</td>
    <td>Jackson</td>
    <td>94</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Output should be:

# Tips-4) How to create HTML Table - Cell Spacing

Cell spacing is the space between each cell.

By default the space is set to 2 pixels.

Full Example of HTML Table - Cell Spacing

To change the space between table cells, use the CSS border-spacing property on the table element:

index.html

Example: HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
  border: 1px solid black;
}
table {
  border-spacing: 30px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Cellspacing</h2>
<p>Change the space between the cells with the border-spacing property.</p>

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th> 
    <th>Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jill</td>
    <td>Smith</td>
    <td>50</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Eve</td>
    <td>Jackson</td>
    <td>94</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>