Html table row margin

How to Add a Margin to a Table Row

Table rows cannot have margin values. Can you increase the padding? That would work. Otherwise you could insert a before and after the class=»highlighted» rows.

How to add margin on table row

You can use border-spacing . Here is an simple example.

Border Spacing
Border spacing specifies the space between the cells.

 
 
Firstname
 
Lastname
 
Age
 
 
Jill
 
Smith
 
50
 
 
Eve
 
Jackson
 
94
 
 
John
 
Doe
 
80
 

Try to change the border-spacing to 5px.

How can I add margin to Bootstrap table rows?

You could use multiple tbody elements, which may be a more semantically correct approach. Use borders as spacers:

tbody border-bottom: 20px solid pink;
>

 
 
 
col1 
col2 
col3 
 
 
 
data1 
data1 
data1 
 
data2 
data2 
data1 
 
Sum of data1 
sum1 
sum1 
 
 
data3 
data3 
data3 
 
Sum of data3 
sum2 
sum2 
 
 
data1 
data1 
data1 
 
data2 
data2 
data1 
 
Sum of data1 
sum1 
sum1 
 
 
data3 
data3 
data3 
 
Sum of data3 
sum2 
sum2 

CSS Cell Margin

HTML example:

How to add margin right to table

margin-right will not work if you set width to 100%.
What you could do is :

UPDATED
If you are creating a page layout, then you should be using divs instead of tables. Tables are appropriate for data display (like custom grid style view).

Padding a table row

The trick is to give padding on the td elements, but make an exception for the first (yes, it’s hacky, but sometimes you have to play by the browser’s rules):

td padding-top:20px; 
padding-bottom:20px; 
padding-right:20px; 
>

td:first-child padding-left:20px; 
padding-right:0;
>

First-child is relatively well supported: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/:first-child

You can use the same reasoning for the horizontal padding by using tr:first-child td .

Alternatively, exclude the first column by using the not operator. Support for this is not as good right now, though.

td:not(:first-child) padding-top:20px; 
padding-bottom:20px; 
padding-right:20px; 
>

Left and right margin on a table row

I do not think this is possible with tables.

Here it is with divs and spans. I hope you like it:

 
 
 
div#outer border: 10px solid black; 
width: 30em; 
> 
div#header background-color: red; 
color: white; 
text-align: center; 
> 
div.row border-bottom: 1px dashed red; 
margin: 10px 20px; 
clear: both; 
> 
span.left float: left; 
> 
span.right margin-left: 10em; 
> 
 
 
Some table head text
 
 
Col 
Col 
 
Col 
Col 
 
Col 
Col 

HTML/CSS table vertical margin

Table rows cannot have margin values. Can you increase the padding? That would work. Otherwise you could insert a before and after the class=»highlighted» rows.

The border-spacing property will work for this particular case.

table border-collapse:separate; 
border-spacing: 0 1em;
>

How to add margins to the first row of td elements only

Table cells do not support margins. You can achieve desired output by using given or any similar approaches.

.tableizer-firstrow td background-color: #104E8B; 
color: white !important; 
padding: 8px; /*4 padding & 4 margin, so giving 8*/
>

.tableizer-firstrow td div margin: 4px;
>

1. You may also add «transparent border» on table cells (only if you do not need borders of any specific color).

.tableizer-firstrow td background-color: #104E8B; 
color: white !important; 
padding: 4px; 
border: 4px transparent solid;
>

.tableizer-firstrow td background-color: #104E8B; 
color: white !important; 
padding: 8px; /*increase inner space*/ 
border: 2px solid #CCC; /*increase outer space*/ 
>

Also refer : Using margin with display table-cell for more details.

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Styling HTML Tables: How to Apply Margin, Border and z-index on Table Elements

The screenshot above illustrates the final result we want to achieve: a table with the first row being the main header and multiple sections, which all have their subheaders.

table class="table" > thead > tr > th >MO/th> th >TU/th> th >WE/th> th >TH/th> th >FR/th> th >SA/th> th >SU/th> /tr> /thead> tbody class="section section-step" > tr class="sub-header" > th colspan="7" > Working hours /th> /tr> tr > td >4/td> td >5/td> td >5/td> td >5/td> td >5/td> td >0/td> td >0/td> /tr> /tbody> tbody class="section section-step" > tr class="sub-header" > th colspan="7" > Workout /th> /tr> tr > td >0.5/td> td >0.5/td> td >0.5/td> td >1/td> td >0.5/td> td >2/td> td >0/td> /tr> /tbody> tbody class="section" > tr class="section-header" > th colspan="7" > Total /th> /tr> tr > td >8.5/td> td >8.5/td> td >9.5/td> td >10/td> td >5.5/td> td >2/td> td >0/td> /tr> /tbody> /table>

Above you see the HTML structure of the table. Inside the element we have our main header and beneath it several elements that represent separate sections of our table, each of which has its own sub header.

Using margin on table elements

As you can see in the screenshot at the beginning of this article, there is some space between the main header and the first section and also between the individual sections. Naive as I am, I first tried to apply margin-top to the elements.

Using border

The simplest solution to achieve a similar result as using margin is to add border-top: 1em onto the elements.

// 1. Needed for making border-top spacing work. .table  border-collapse: collapse; // 1 border-spacing: 0; > .section  border-top: 1em solid transparent; >

All our elements, which need some space around them, have a class .section . For the border-top to work, we have to put border-collapse: collapse on our table.

Using ::before and ::after pseudo elements

Another way of applying some margin on a element is to use a ::before or ::after pseudo element.

.section::before  height: 1em; display: table-row; content: ''; >

This way we basically add a new (empty) row which we can use to add some space at the beginning of our elements.

Depending on the circumstances you might want to reach for either the border method or the pseudo element trick.

Using border-radius on table elements

Next, we want to give our elements a border and apply a border radius. Again we’re out of luck if we try to apply border and border-radius onto the element itself.

// 1. Using box-shadow because otherwise // border-radius doesn't work on . .section-step  border-radius: 0.25em; // 1 box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #ccc; // 1 >

Above you can see how we can use box-shadow instead of border in order to achieve (almost) the same result.

Styling table cells instead

As you may have noticed, our current implementation doesn’t look exactly like the screenshot you saw at the beginning of this article.

The spacing hack works like padding instead of margin

Now that we’ve added the borders, we can see that our spacing hacks do not work like margin but rather like padding . Unfortunately, under these circumstances, if you have a border around a element that must have some space to the previous element, there is no easy solution to achieve this. The only way to solve this is to apply our border styles to the table cells and use some :first-child / :last-child selector magic to achieve the desired layout.

.section-step th, .section-step td  border: 0 solid #ccc; > .section-step th:first-child, .section-step td:first-child  border-left-width: 1px; > .section-step th:last-child, .section-step td:last-child  border-right-width: 1px; > .section-step tr:first-child th, .section-step tr:first-child td  border-top-width: 1px; > .section-step tr:first-child th:first-child, .section-step tr:first-child td:first-child  border-top-left-radius: 0.25em; > .section-step tr:first-child th:last-child, .section-step tr:first-child td:last-child  border-top-right-radius: 0.25em; > .section-step tr:last-child th, .section-step tr:last-child td  border-bottom-width: 1px; > .section-step tr:last-child th:first-child, .section-step tr:last-child td:first-child  border-bottom-left-radius: 0.25em; > .section-step tr:last-child th:last-child, .section-step tr:last-child td:last-child  border-bottom-right-radius: 0.25em; >

In the code snippet above we apply the necessary border styles to the relevant th and td table cell elements. The elements at the corners must have a border radius all element on the edges must have a border. By using :first-child and :last-child selectors we can apply the styles to the correct cells.

Using z-index on table elements

As you can see in the initial screenshot of the final result, a box-shadow has been applied to the sub header, overlaying the following row. If we try to simply apply a box-shadow to the element, we will see that the shadow of the sub header disappears behind the following row.

The box shadow disappears behind the following row

Normally, we would use z-index to raise the sub header above the following row. But as you may have guessed, using relative positioning and z-index on a element doesn’t work either. But we can use our knowledge about the CSS stacking context to solve this problem. Applying position: relative and a z-index to an element creates a new stacking context. But this is not the only way we can achieve this: for example, we can also use transform: translate(0, 0) .

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Wrapping it up

We have to dig deep into the CSS bag of tricks to make some more complicated table layouts work. But the beauty of CSS is that there is always a way to achieve certain things.

We could have made our lives a little easier by overriding the display property of our table elements. But that means you have to explicitly specify the width of each cell to make the columns equally wide. This may be okay in certain cases, but it’s often more convenient to rely on the browser to automatically determine the width of each cell.

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