What does this mean?

[huisoonsg]

What does Cellpadding, cellspacing and border means??? Anyone knows pls tell me. Thanks a lot.


<table width="300" border="1" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" border="0">

[ddadmin]

They're simply table formatting attribues. You can try changing the values to see how it affects your table. See this page for more info: http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/tables/basictables.html

[mwinter]

What does Cellpadding, cellspacing and border means??? Anyone knows pls tell me.The HTML Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/) gives pretty clear definitions for each of these attributes.

Essentially the cellpadding and cellspacing attributes affect cell margins (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.3) - the amount of space between the edges of cells and their content, and the distance between adjacent cells, respectively. The border attribute affects the width of table borders (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.1). Other attributes dictate how borders are rendered.

Though these attributes haven't been deprecated, you can achieve more control using CSS.


<table width="300" border="1" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" border="0">As an aside, that snippet is invalid as it contains two identical attributes - border in this case. An attribute can only be included once in any particular starting tag.

Mike