HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

B.17. border-spacing

This property is the CSS equivalent to the cellspacing attribute of the HTML <table> tag. It lets you specify the spacing that will appear between cells in a table. This property is ignored if border-collapse is set to collapse for the table.

Inherited: Yes

See also: Section B.15border-collapse

B.17.1. Value

A single CSS length measurement, or two lengths separated by a space. A single value will be applied as both the horizontal and vertical spacing between cells. Two values will be applied as horizontal and vertical spacing, respectively.

Initial value: 0

B.17.2. Compatibility

CSS Version: 2

Supported by Netscape 6 and Mozilla browsers only at this time.

B.17.3. Example

This style rule allows 5 pixels of spacing between ...