How does CSS determine the distance between each TD?

justaguy

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Dec 22, 2012, 9:16:51 PM12/22/12

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If not specified does it mean the mean distance among all the TDs?
Thanks in advance.

El Kabong

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Dec 22, 2012, 9:54:41 PM12/22/12

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Don't you just specify the cellspacing in the table attributes like everyone
else?

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justaguy

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Dec 23, 2012, 9:37:51 AM12/23/12

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Yep,you're right about cellspacing, in the meantime, HTML5 no longer
supports cellspacing, so, what's going to happen?

MiB

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Dec 23, 2012, 9:45:00 AM12/23/12

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23 dec 2012 kl. 03:16 skrev justaguy:

> If not specified does it mean the mean distance among all the TDs?

That depends. With the separated borders model and table width set to auto (!) you have border-spacing — among these the borders around cells — as default evenly distributed and values can be set with "border-spacing" for the table. With the collapsing borders model you don't have any space between so "border-spacing" is naturally ignored.

See this code http://pastebin.com/CTsYANEMas an example. Experiment with the width settings (preferrably in a real time editor as the Developer Tools n Firefox or similar) and analyze the actual width of cells with the built-in browser tools and/or Xray.

justaguy

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Dec 25, 2012, 8:31:12 PM12/25/12

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All right, thanks. I now have a different question, for the following CSS,

what do I need to do to make text for INPUT type="text" showing up more Clearly?

MiB

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Dec 26, 2012, 8:00:39 AM12/26/12

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26 dec 2012 02:31 justaguy:

> All right, thanks. I now have a different question, for the following CSS,
> what do I need to do to make text for INPUT type="text" showing up more Clearly?

Please define "clearly". Would a larger font size give more clarity? Is this on what screens?

Have you looked at downloadable fonts and choosing a highly legible font (with a font stack as fallback)? I use downloadable fonts for all my sites now, also on main text. It works great once you've sorted out all caveats.

justaguy

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Dec 26, 2012, 4:43:25 PM12/26/12

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Yeah, larger font size would work, my first step towards clarity of user data input. Thanks.

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