Table Spacing Question

[kodaks]

Greetings,

I am very new to tables, and I have a question. I hope I can explain it well enough. Here is an example table that I use:

<tr>
<td width=100% height=20 class=l1a onmouseout="this.className='l1a';">
</b>&nbsp;Some text goes here
</td>
</tr>

The text budges up right to the left side of the table when I look at the page. I am wondering how I can space the text away from the left a little bit.

Thanks in advance!

[deejay]

adding cellpadding to your table tag will give you spacing from the table border.

<table cellpadding="10">

cellspacing is your other option, which puts space between the cells themselves.

[kodaks]

Thanks!

[kodaks]

I think I may still me doing something wrong. With the cellpadding, my code looks like:

<tr>
<a href="link3.html">
<td width=100% table cellpadding=10 height=20 class=l1a " onmouseout="this.className='l1a';">
</b>&nbsp;Some text here.....
</td>
</a>
</tr>

But the text is still bunched up right to the side.

[deejay]

ahh no no.. like this:

<table cellpadding="10">
<tr>
<a href="link3.html">
<td width=100% height=20 class=l1a " onmouseout="this.className='l1a';">
</b>&nbsp;Some text here.....
</td>
</a>
</tr>
</table>

[kodaks]

Now it works, thanks!

[deejay]

:) you're welcome

[encyclo]

<tr> 
<a href="link3.html"> 
<td width...

That doesn't look right at all - the link needs to be in a

td

, not just placed after a

tr

. You should really validate your HTML to avoid any rendering problems:

[validator.w3.org...]

[kodaks]

Thanks, I got the HTML from a pre-made template and I am trying to sort out all the bad HTML.