HTML DOM Table cellPadding Property

Last Updated : 31 Dec, 2021

The HTML DOM Table cellPadding property is used to set or return the value of the cellpadding attribute of the <table> element . The cellPadding attribute is used to define the space between the cell content and cell wall.

Syntax:

It is used to return the table cellPadding property.
```
TableObject.cellPadding
```
It is used to set the table cellPadding property.
```
TableObject.cellPadding = "number"
```

Property values : It contains a numeric value that represents the space between the cell wall and cell content in terms of pixels.

Note: This property is not supported by HTML5.

Example 1: Below HTML code shows, how to return the table cellPadding property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        Table cellPadding property in HTML 
    </title> 
      
    <style> 
        table, 
        td { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
  
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
  
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>Table cellPadding Property</h2> 
  
    <table id="tableID" align="center"
        cellpadding="35"> 
          
        <thead> 
            <tr> 
                <th>Subject</th> 
                <th>Courses</th> 
            </tr> 
        </thead> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Java</td> 
            <td>Fork Java</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Python</td> 
            <td>Fork Python</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Placements</td> 
            <td>Sudo Placement</td> 
        </tr> 
    </table> 
    <br> 
  
    <button ondblclick="doubleClick()"> 
        Return cellPadding 
    </button> 
      
    <p id="paraID"></p> 
      
    <script> 
        function doubleClick() { 
            var w = document.getElementById( 
                "tableID").cellPadding; 
  
            document.getElementById( 
                "paraID").innerHTML = w + "px"; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Example 2: Below HTML code illustrates how to set the table cellPadding property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        Table cellPadding Property in HTML 
    </title> 
      
    <style> 
        table, 
        td { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
  
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
  
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>Table cellPadding property</h2> 
  
    <table id="tableID" align="center" 
        cellpadding="35"> 
      
        <thead> 
            <tr> 
                <th>Subject</th> 
                <th>Courses</th> 
            </tr> 
        </thead> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Java</td> 
            <td>Fork Java</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Python</td> 
            <td>Fork Python</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Placements</td> 
            <td>Sudo Placement</td> 
        </tr> 
    </table> 
    <br> 
  
    <button ondblclick="doubleClick()"> 
        Return cellPadding 
    </button> 
      
    <p id="paraID"></p> 
      
    <script> 
        function doubleClick() { 
            var w = document.getElementById( 
                "tableID").cellPadding = "15"; 
  
            document.getElementById( 
                "paraID").innerHTML = w + "px"; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 