Month: March 2006

No table padding on IE for PC

A small difference in the way IE and other browsers interpret table attributes:

Browsers other than IE will show padding if it is applied to the table tag.

table {
padding:6px;
}

IE does not recognize table padding, and will show contained elements as flush with the edges of the table.

For example:

This is the way Safari 2.0 renders the code below. Note the 6 pixel white padding area between the edge of the table and the edge of the tr.

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