HTML Tutorial: Tables
 
 

The Planets

Mercury Mars
Jupiter Saturn
 

Wow - how did you do that ?

CELLPADDING - yet another property. Cellpadding specifies the amount of space between the contents and the borders of a cell. In this example,  I've set it to quite a large value - 15.  As you can see it is quite effective. 

Like the BORDER property, the default value for CELLPADDING is 0.

<TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="15">
  <TR>
    <TD ALIGN="CENTER">Mercury</TD>
    <TD ALIGN="CENTER">Mars</TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD ALIGN="CENTER">Jupiter</TD>
    <TD ALIGN="CENTER">Saturn</TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE>

Try it out yourself in the box below: