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Set cellpadding and cellspacing in CSS

Cell Padding

The cell padding is used to define the spaces between the cells and its border. If cell padding property is not applied then it will be set as the default value.



Example:




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>cell padding</title>
    <style>
        table, th, td {
            border: 2px solid green;
            text-align:center;
        }
        th, td {
            padding: 20px;
            background-color:none;
        }
         
        h1 {
        color:green;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <center>
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
        <h2>Cell Padding property</h2>
        <h3>padding: 20px;</h3>
        <table style="width:70%">
            <tr>
                <th>Firstname</th>
                <th>Lastname</th>
                <th>Age</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Harsh</td>
                <td>Agarwal</td>
                <td>15</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Manas</td>
                <td>Chhabra</td>
                <td>27</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ramesh</td>
                <td>Chandra</td>
                <td>28</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </center>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:



Cell Spacing

The cell spacing is used to define the space between the cells.

Example:




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>cell spacing property</title>
    <style>
        table, th, td {
            border: 2px solid green;
            text-align:center;
        }
        h1 {
        color:green;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <center>
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
        <h2>Cell Spacing property</h2>
        <h3>cellspacing = "30px"</h3>
        <table style="width:70%;"
               cellspacing="30px">
            <tr>
                <th>Firstname</th>
                <th>Lastname</th>
                <th>Age</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Harsh</td>
                <td>Agarwal</td>
                <td>15</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Manas</td>
                <td>Chhabra</td>
                <td>27</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Manas</td>
                <td>Chhabra</td>
                <td>27</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ramesh</td>
                <td>Chandra</td>
                <td>28</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </center>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

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