What CSS property will allow all of my cells in my table to separate (as in margin, I believe), without defining a class for all of the cells/rows? Am I able to do that with just a table property?
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JeevesBond posted this at 18:38 — 1st May 2006.
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Hmmm, the simplest way is:
td {margin: 1em;
}
'
However, that will affect all td's on your page. Probably a better way is this:
<table id="tablewotholdsstuffandthat"><tr>
<td> ... code ... </td>
</tr>
</table>
table#tablewotholdsstuffandthat td {margin: 1em;
}
'
The second example will only select my really stupidly named table, instead of all td's in the entire document! If you have multiple tables of the same type, you could use classes:
<table class="typeoftablewotholdsstuffandthat"><tr>
<td> ... code ... </td>
</tr>
</table>
table.typeoftablewotholdsstuffandthat td {margin: 1em;
}
'
Generally, if you're only going to create one of something then use an id. If you're going to use multiples of the same item, use a class.
This should work in all web browsers and Internet Explorer too.
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Maxwell posted this at 18:42 — 1st May 2006.
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Thank you, sir. Much appreciated.
Megan posted this at 19:43 — 1st May 2006.
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Isn't border-collapse and border-spacing meant to do the same thing? Unless I'm misreading you here. Border-spacing isn't supported by IE so maybe that's why you used margin instead???
See reference:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp#table
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Maxwell posted this at 19:44 — 1st May 2006.
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Why isn't CSS universal?
*gosh*
Renegade posted this at 09:31 — 2nd May 2006.
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CSS more or less is universal. MSIE is just trying to create their own universe
JeevesBond posted this at 10:09 — 2nd May 2006.
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Agreed. The CSS support in IE is awful, even IE 7 (the new one who's features were all stolen from Opera/Firefox) is equivalent to Opera 4 in terms of CSS support. Opera 4 was released in 2000 by the way.
This article makes for an interesting read about IE's CSS support, and how you as an author are about to be constrained: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/operaStuff/acid/
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Megan posted this at 12:54 — 2nd May 2006.
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So, you were using the margin instead of border-spacing to get around IE's lack of support, correct?
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