Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 06/21/06 22:43

Martin wrote:
> In some cases, I want to space the data in a table cell over a little
> bit (have some white space between the left cell border and the text).
> But ONLY on the left side - not at the top and bottom. If I set the
> "padding", it enlarges the entire cell - I don't want that.
>
> I generally do this by inserting several " " before the cell text
> when I generate the table. This accomplishes what I want but is this
> the "best" way?
>
> One case in which the   does not work very well is when the cell
> text is a "hot link" (an href anchor tag); then the  's are
> underlined and it doesn't look good.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks

CSS is the way to go, for example:

td {padding-left:.5em}

This will affect all tds in the table. Put it in an external sheet
(recommended), or put it in the head in a style element.

HTH
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