What's the difference between cellpadding and cellspacing in a table cell?

Cellpadding adds space all around a table cell - so if you set cellpadding to 2 pixels, you're adding 4 pixels between the data in neighboring cells. But cellspacing controls the space between the cells, so specifying 2 will add just two pixels between the cells.

You'll also find that if you have your background colour for a cell set to a different colour to the background, it will effect your cellpadding but NOT your cellspacing.

Perhaps an example would help?

Cellpadding = 2 and Cellspacing = 0

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Cellspacing = 2 and Cellpadding = 0

	Starts	Duration
Regular Expressions	Mon, 7 Jan 08	1 day
The MySQL Database	Thu, 24 Jan 08	2 days
PHP Programming	Mon, 4 Feb 08	4 days
Object Oriented PHP	Fri, 8 Feb 08	1 day
Linux Web Server	Thu, 27 Mar 08	2 days
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Both Cellspacing and Cellpadding = 0

	Starts	Duration
Regular Expressions	Mon, 7 Jan 08	1 day
The MySQL Database	Thu, 24 Jan 08	2 days
PHP Programming	Mon, 4 Feb 08	4 days
Object Oriented PHP	Fri, 8 Feb 08	1 day
Linux Web Server	Thu, 27 Mar 08	2 days
Technology for PHP	Mon, 7 Apr 08	1 day

(written 2008-01-02 20:34:33)

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