Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

Name

border-spacing

Synopsis

This specifies the distance between cell borders in the separated borders model. The first of the two length values is the horizontal separation, and the second is the vertical. This property is ignored unless border-collapse is set to separate. Although the property only applies to tables, it is inherited by all of the elements within the table.

Values:

<length> <length>? | inherit

Initial value:

0

Applies to:

elements with the display value table or inline-table

Inherited:

yes

Computed value:

two absolute lengths

Note:

property is ignored unless border-collapse value is separate