How to remove unwanted space between rows and columns in table?

Question 1

How to remove unwanted space between rows and columns in table?

html css html-table

Zach Galant · Feb 17, 2010 · Viewed 473.5k times · Source

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Adding to vectran's answer: You also have to set cellspacing attribute on the table element for cross-browser compatibility.

<table cellspacing="0">

EDIT (for the sake of completeness I'm expanding this 5 years later:):

Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 required you to set cellspacing directly as a table attribute, otherwise the spacing wouldn't vanish.

Internet Explorer 8 and later versions and all other versions of popular browsers - Chrome, Firefox, Opera 4+ - support the CSS property border-spacing.

So in order to make a cross-browser table cell spacing reset (supporting IE6 as a dinosaur browser), you can follow the below code sample:

table{
  border: 1px solid black;
}
table td {
  border: 1px solid black; /* Style just to show the table cell boundaries */
}


table.no-spacing {
  border-spacing:0; /* Removes the cell spacing via CSS */
  border-collapse: collapse;  /* Optional - if you don't want to have double border where cells touch */
}

<p>Default table:</p>

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>First cell</td>
    <td>Second cell</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p>Removed spacing:</p>

<table class="no-spacing" cellspacing="0"> <!-- cellspacing 0 to support IE6 and IE7 -->
  <tr>
    <td>First cell</td>
    <td>Second cell</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Question 2

How do I remove the extra space between the rows and columns in the table.

I've tried changing the margin, padding, and various border properties on the table and tr and td.

I want the pictures to all be right next to each other to look like one big image.

How should I fix this?

CSS

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

HTML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <title>Tera Byte Video Game Creation Camp</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"></link>
</head>

<body>
  <table class="mytable" align="center">
    <tr class="header">
      <td colspan="3"><img src="images/home_01.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="top">
      <td colspan="3"><img src="images/home_02.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_03.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_04.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_05.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_07.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_06.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_08.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_09.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_10.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_11.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_12.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_13.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_14.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="bottom">
      <td colspan="3"><img src="images/home_15.png" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>

</body>

</html>

How to remove unwanted space between rows and columns in table?

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