Topic: Format "TD" inside "TABLE class=xxx"?

Suppose I have a stylesheet which formats all my tables:

TABLE
{
font-family : Verdana;
font-size : 8pt;
}

Now I have a speciffic table type which I want to be formatted in a speciffic way so I add:

TABLE.class
{
font-family : Verdana;
font-size : 8pt;
border : 0;
width : 100%;
padding : 0;
text-align : center;
}

Problem 1
How can I format the table cells inside this last table so these cells are formatted my way and all the other cells are left unchanged?

Problem 2
How do I define the cell spacing?

Sam

1. use

.classname td{

  something....

}

This will only apply to the <td>'s that are inside an element of .classname.. [edited away some stuff that turned out to not work... thanks to Slime for noticing it ]

2. check out this link

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[This message has been edited by Veneficuz (edited 12-10-2002).]

Understand that

table.classname td

will also work.

By the way, using > isn't something you would want to do here, because TD is never a *direct* child of TABLE. There are two elements inbetween:

TABLE
TBODY
TR
TD

Ok, my 1st problem is solved, thanks.

My 2nd problem isn't.
I know I can use the following inside my html page:

<table cellspacing="10">

but I want to do this with a stylesheet so I put the following inside my stylesheet:

table

{

border-spacing: 10px ;

}

... and this has no effect on my table!



[This message has been edited by Sam (edited 12-11-2002).]

If there's a "border-spacing" property, it's news to me. The "margin" property will do the same thing as cellspacing used to, and "padding" will do the same thing as cellpadding. Of course, you can (and often should) apply margins or padding to other elements as well.

So your style would be something like table.classname td { padding: 10px; margin: 10px; } (add carriage returns and indentation to suit).

Yup, no "border-spacing" property. PT is right on with the answer.