Space between two rows in a table?
Space between two rows in a table?
Question
Is this possible via CSS?
I'm trying
tr.classname {
border-spacing: 5em;
}
to no avail. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Popular Answer
You need to use padding on your td
elements. Something like this should do the trick. You can, of course, get the same result using a top padding instead of a bottom padding.
In the CSS code below, the greater-than sign means that the padding is only applied to td
elements that are direct children to tr
elements with the class spaceUnder
. This will make it possible to use nested tables. (Cell C and D in the example code.) I'm not too sure about browser support for the direct child selector (think IE 6), but it shouldn't break the code in any modern browsers.
/* Apply padding to td elements that are direct children of the tr elements with class spaceUnder. */
tr.spaceUnder>td {
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>A</td>
<td>B</td>
</tr>
<tr class="spaceUnder">
<td>C</td>
<td>D</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>E</td>
<td>F</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
This should render somewhat like this:
+---+---+
| A | B |
+---+---+
| C | D |
| | |
+---+---+
| E | F |
+---+---+
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In the parent table, try setting
border-collapse:separate;
border-spacing:5em;
Plus a border declaration, and see if this achieves your desired effect. Beware, though, that IE doesn't support the "separated borders" model.
You have table with id albums with any data... I have omitted the trs and tds
<table id="albums" cellspacing="0">
</table>
In the css:
table#albums
{
border-collapse:separate;
border-spacing:0 5px;
}
since I have a background image behind the table, faking it with white padding wouldn't work. I opted to put an empty row in-between each row of content:
<tr class="spacer"><td></td></tr>
then use css to give the spacer rows a certain height and transparent background.
From Mozilla Developer Network:
The border-spacing CSS property specifies the distance between the borders of adjacent cells (only for the separated borders model). This is equivalent to the cellspacing attribute in presentational HTML, but an optional second value can be used to set different horizontal and vertical spacing.
That last part is often overseen. Example:
.your-table {
border-collapse: separate; /* allow spacing between cell borders */
border-spacing: 0 5px; /* NOTE: syntax is <horizontal value> <vertical value> */
UPDATE
I now understand that the OP wants specific, seperate rows to have increased spacing. I've added a setup with tbody
elements that accomplishes that without ruining the semantics. However, I'm not sure if it is supported on all browsers. I made it in Chrome.
The example below is for showing how you can make it look like the table exists of seperate rows, full blown css sweetness. Also gave the first row more spacing with the tbody
setup. Feel free to use!
Support notice: IE8+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera 4+
.spacing-table {
font-family: 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
border-collapse: separate;
table-layout: fixed;
width: 80%;
border-spacing: 0 5px; /* this is the ultimate fix */
}
.spacing-table th {
text-align: left;
padding: 5px 15px;
}
.spacing-table td {
border-width: 3px 0;
width: 50%;
border-color: darkred;
border-style: solid;
background-color: red;
color: white;
padding: 5px 15px;
}
.spacing-table td:first-child {
border-left-width: 3px;
border-radius: 5px 0 0 5px;
}
.spacing-table td:last-child {
border-right-width: 3px;
border-radius: 0 5px 5px 0;
}
.spacing-table thead {
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%;
}
.spacing-table tbody {
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%;
border-spacing: 0 10px;
}
<table class="spacing-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Lead singer</th>
<th>Band</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Bono</td>
<td>U2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Chris Martin</td>
<td>Coldplay</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mick Jagger</td>
<td>Rolling Stones</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John Lennon</td>
<td>The Beatles</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
You may try to add separator row:
html:
<tr class="separator" />
css:
table tr.separator { height: 10px; }