Megan — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:54:17 +0000

So, you were using the margin instead of border-spacing to get around IE's lack of support, correct?

JeevesBond — Tue, 02 May 2006 10:09:36 +0000

Renegade wrote: MSIE is just trying to create their own universe

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/

Renegade — Tue, 02 May 2006 09:31:26 +0000

CSS more or less is universal. MSIE is just trying to create their own universe

Maxwell — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:44:55 +0000

Why isn't CSS universal?

*gosh*

Megan — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:43:33 +0000

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

Maxwell — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:42:44 +0000

Thank you, sir. Much appreciated.

JeevesBond — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:38:06 +0000

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.