padding problem..

[maya]

hi,

I discovered recently, the hard way, that adding padding-right or
padding-left to a <tdadds to the width of <td>!!

so how do I add left- or right-padding to a <tdwithout adding to the
width of it (short of putting a div inside each <tdand making it a
specific width?)

what's the point of "padding" property if instead of adding just the
specified padding it WIDENS element you're applying padding to????? :(

thank you...

[C A Upsdell]

Re: padding problem..

maya wrote:

hi,
>
I discovered recently, the hard way, that adding padding-right or
padding-left to a <tdadds to the width of <td>!!

Yes, that's what it is supposed to do. Per the standards.

so how do I add left- or right-padding to a <tdwithout adding to the
width of it (short of putting a div inside each <tdand making it a
specific width?)

I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but my guess is that you want to
increase the space between the cells without increasing the size of the
block which is affected by the background colour, background image, etc.

To do this you can specify (or increase) the TD's margin.

HTH

[Jeff]

Re: padding problem..

maya wrote:

hi,
>
I discovered recently, the hard way, that adding padding-right or
padding-left to a <tdadds to the width of <td>!!

This sounds like a box model issue. I'm not sure this applies to
tables cells but it does to other boxes.

Try taking this out of standards mode and see if that "fixes" your
problem. There is a CSS box setting but I don't believe it is widely
supported.

Others should come along and correct this. I'm not feeling well
today, so I did not verify this

Jeff

>
so how do I add left- or right-padding to a <tdwithout adding to the
width of it (short of putting a div inside each <tdand making it a
specific width?)
>
what's the point of "padding" property if instead of adding just the
specified padding it WIDENS element you're applying padding to????? :(
>
thank you...