Can I set a margin inside table cell?

Hi,

How can I set a margin inside a table cell?

The cellSpacing and cellPadding didn't do the job I want it to be.
I only want the content of the cell to shift to the right by x margin...

Thanks,
Kian

"f" <f@f.com> wrote:

>How can I set a margin inside a table cell?

Table cells don't have margins, they do have padding though.

>The cellSpacing and cellPadding didn't do the job I want it to be.

And they're deprecated to boot,

>I only want the content of the cell to shift to the right by x margin...

So you want some left padding?

Hmm, how about the following in your style sheet-
td {padding-left: 1em;}

Add a class if you only want a few cells to be affected.
Alter the property value to suit your needs.

Steve

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Thanks.

It is working now when I use:
<div style="padding-left: 3em"> </div> inside my table cell.

Thank you very much.


"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> "f" <f@f.com> wrote:
>
> > How can I set a margin inside a table cell?
> >
> > The cellSpacing and cellPadding didn't do the job I want it to be.
>
> They set the distance between cells and the internal padding in cells,
> respectively, _in all four directions_. That's what HTML has to offer.
>
> > I only want the content of the cell to shift to the right by x
> > margin...
>
> Then use CSS. It's really padding that you want, e.g.
> <td style="padding-left: 0.3em">
>
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Steve Pugh wrote:

>>The cellSpacing and cellPadding didn't do the job I want it to be.

> And they're deprecated to boot,

When? They weren't by XHTML 1.0 (although IMO they _should_ be)

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David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Steve Pugh wrote:
>
>>>The cellSpacing and cellPadding didn't do the job I want it to be.
>
>> And they're deprecated to boot,
>
>When? They weren't by XHTML 1.0 (although IMO they _should_ be)

You're quite right they're not. I must have had a memory failure and
just done a presentational = deprecated.

Steve

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