How to set cellspacing in tables only horizontally

Question

I would like to style the table written below.

<table border="1"   cellspacing="10">
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>  
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>January</td>
    <td>$100</td>
  </tr>
</table>

The problem is that cellspacing sets the space between cells both horizontaly and verticaly, I would like it to be done only horizontaly. Is there a way to do this.

Can you try with CSS by setting padding-left and padding-right to your TDs — Murali Murugesan, Oct 19 '12 at 09:04

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 10 '15 at 15:38

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Use the border-spacing CSS property on the table. Browser support is fairly good (excluding mainly IE up to and including IE 7). Example:

table { border-spacing: 10px 0; }

edited Jul 10 '15 at 15:38

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answered Oct 19 '12 at 09:19

Jukka K. Korpela

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '12 at 09:06

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Try CSS

table td{

 padding:0px 10px 0px 10px; /* top right bottom left */

 }

answered Oct 19 '12 at 09:06

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Padding is inside cells. It’s different from spacing between cells, which is what this is about. – Jukka K. Korpela Oct 19 '12 at 09:17

How to set cellspacing in tables only horizontally

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