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[at ndrew]

Frank,

I'm not 100% sure what you're looking for, but... The CSS "margin" attribute
is roughly comparable to a table's cellspacing. Other things you can do:

background-color: #006699;
border: 1pt solid #808080; (saves typing border-width, border-style, etc.
:-)

You can specify a width as well, but I'm not sure you can specify it as a
percent. Also, remember that using, say:

tr { padding: 10px; background-color: #999999; color: #ffffff; }

Will change the padding, & c., for each and EVERY row on the page. Depending
on what you're doing, you may be better off with:

.row1 { padding: 10px; }
<tr class="row1"></tr>

CSS is pretty cool, but I've found it a little lacking - especially when
doing complex designs (where you typically rely on a table). I think a
combination of both CSS and "old-school" HTML has the best results. :-)

--
@ndrew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz 
> [mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Frank Bax
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 2:55 PM
> To: christiansource at ofb.biz
> Subject: [CS-FSLUG] html/css question - <table>
> 
> <table border="1" width="80%" align="center" cellspacing="2" 
> cellpadding="4">
> 
> I'm trying to learn css the hard way - by myself - with help 
> from this site:
> 	http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html
> 
> cellpadding can now be controlled by row or by cell:
> 	  tr { padding: 4px; }
> 	  th { padding: 4px; }
> 	  td { padding: 4px; }
> 
> A border around the entire table like border="1" can be done 
> with table {
> border-width: 1pt }, but the css code does not affect spacing 
> between rows/cells in table.  Also, I cannot seem to find css 
> coding for the other properties in above "table" tag.  Can 
> anyone help? 
> 
> 
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