cellpadding Attribute

Where to use the cellpadding Attribute

• As Type Length:
  cellpadding is declared on the element: table

Description

The cellpadding attribute specifies the padding within each table cell, between the cell's border and its contents.

The cellpadding attribute is not present in the *W3C XHTML 1.1 Basic Tables Module.

An integer is treated as a pixel value and each of the top, bottom, left and right paddings should be this number of pixels. In theory, it is possible to specify instead a percentage value for this attribute, but since both of the browsers I tested merely treated this percentage as if it were a pixel value - i.e. "10%" is equivalent to "10", it seems safer to stick to pixel values (or, better, CSS and the padding property).

See also the cellspacing attribute.