uses of cellpadding and cellspacing

Sneha_Tiwari

Asked on February 16, 2015

I want to create a table in HTML using Dreamweaver its added cellpadding and cellspacing, anyone tell me the use of this attributes ?

my code is here

<table width="770" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<caption>
    Student Name
</caption>
<tr>
    <td> </td>
    <td colspan="4" align="center">Ist Student </td>
    <td colspan="5" align="center">2nd Student </td>
    </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="70">1</td>
    <td width="70">a</td>
    <td width="70">b</td>
    <td width="70">c</td>
    <td width="70">d</td>
    <td width="70">e</td>
    <td width="70">f</td>
    <td width="70">g</td>
    <td width="70">i</td>
    <td width="76">j</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width="70">2</td>
    <td width="70">a</td>
    <td width="70">b</td>
    <td width="70">c</td>
    <td width="70">d</td>
    <td width="70">e</td>
    <td width="70">f</td>
    <td width="70">g</td>
    <td width="70">i</td>
    <td width="76">j</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width="70">3</td>
    <td width="70">a</td>
    <td width="70">b</td>
    <td width="70">c</td>
    <td width="70">d</td>
    <td width="70">e</td>
    <td width="70">f</td>
    <td width="70">g</td>
    <td width="70">i</td>
    <td width="76">j</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width="70">4</td>
    <td width="70">a</td>
    <td width="70">b</td>
    <td width="70">c</td>
    <td width="70">d</td>
    <td width="70">e</td>
    <td width="70">f</td>
    <td width="70">g</td>
    <td width="70">i</td>
    <td width="76">j</td>
</tr>
</table>

Piyush

Replied on February 20, 2015

Cellpadding and Cellspacing are very important attributes of html table element.

Cellpadding: Distance in pixel between cell content and cell border.

Cellspacing : Distance in pixel between two adjoining cells.