{"id":294643,"date":"2019-08-19T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?page_id=294643"},"modified":"2022-11-17T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:34:08","slug":"border-spacing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/b\/border-spacing\/","title":{"rendered":"border-spacing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<code>border-spacing<\/code>&nbsp;property in CSS controls how far apart cells are in a&nbsp;<code>&lt;table&gt;<\/code>&nbsp;element (or an element that is made to be table-like via&nbsp;<code>display: table;<\/code>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes any of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/the-lengths-of-css\/\">lengths of CSS<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, it only has any effect at all if the table is using the default&nbsp;<code>border-collapse: separate;<\/code>&nbsp;and has no effect at all when&nbsp;<code>border-collapse: collapse;<\/code>&nbsp;is set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">table {\n  border-collapse: separate;\n\n  border-spacing: 5px;\n  border-spacing: 1vw;\n  border-spacing: 2em;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-codepen-gutenberg-embed-block cp_embed_wrapper\"><iframe id=\"cp_embed_NWKrXQx\" src=\"\/\/codepen.io\/anon\/embed\/NWKrXQx?height=450&amp;theme-id=1&amp;slug-hash=NWKrXQx&amp;default-tab=result\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allowpaymentrequest name=\"CodePen Embed NWKrXQx\" title=\"CodePen Embed NWKrXQx\" class=\"cp_embed_iframe\" style=\"width:100%;overflow:hidden\">CodePen Embed Fallback<\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"browser-support\">Browser support<\/h3>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Chrome<\/th><th>Safari<\/th><th>Firefox<\/th><th>Opera<\/th><th>IE<\/th><th>Android<\/th><th>iOS<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>All<\/td><td>All<\/td><td>All<\/td><td>All<\/td><td>All<\/td><td>All<\/td><td>All<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;border-spacing&nbsp;property in CSS controls how far apart cells are in a&nbsp;&lt;table&gt;&nbsp;element (or an element that is made to be table-like via&nbsp;display: table;). It takes any of the&nbsp;lengths of CSS.&nbsp; Notably, it only has any effect at all if the table is using the default&nbsp;border-collapse: separate;&nbsp;and has no effect at all when&nbsp;border-collapse: collapse;&nbsp;is set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":13913,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-almanac-single.php","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13970,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/b\/border-collapse\/","url_meta":{"origin":294643,"position":0},"title":"border-collapse","date":"August 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0border-collapse\u00a0property is for use on\u00a0<table>\u00a0elements (or elements made to behave like a table through\u00a0display: table\u00a0or\u00a0display: inline-table). 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