why doesn't table cellspacing work?

Question

I have tried every bit of tricks to make cellspacing:0; cellpadding:0; described in a css file to work but somehow the table doesn't accept this property but accepts while described inline as <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">. That's painstaking.

Answer 1

Check this answer How to set cellpadding and cellspacing in CSS?

table { 
    border-spacing:0;
    border-collapse:collapse;
}