- What am I doing wrong? (CSS padding works in FF, not IE)

Question

Can anyone tell me why the padding in...
.stoneCap {
border-right-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
border-left-width: 3px;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-right-color: #8c7c6f;
border-bottom-color: #22170D;
border-left-color: #2E2012;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-top-color: #998A7D;
background-position: left top;
padding: 15px;
...works in FF but not in IE, when applied to a table?
(IE ignores it... so does the Dreamweaver design view.)
How do I set padding for all tables through this class? What
am I doing
wrong? :-(

Answer 1

Your interpretation of tables is incorrect. When you set the
padding value
in the table tag, you are telling the HTML to pad the cells.
The table tag
itself has no padding.
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"R. Jay" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Interesting. But that's weird, no? I mean, why do we, in
normal HTML, set
> padding on table tags and not td's? Clearly, it's the
table that receives
> the instructions for padding, spacing and border... no?
Why won't CSS
> conform to that?
>
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
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>>A table doesn't have padding. A td does. If you need
the padding on the
>>td, then make your rule selector -
>>
>> .stoneCap td { }
>>
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>> "Reese" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> On the table tag (not tr or td).
>>>
>>> Try it, you should have the same results (in
theory)
>>>
>>> "Murray *ACE*"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>>> Where have you applied .stoneCap?
>>>>
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>>>> "Reese" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> Can anyone tell me why the padding in...
>>>>>
>>>>> .stoneCap {
>>>>> border-right-width: 1px;
>>>>> border-bottom-width: 2px;
>>>>> border-left-width: 3px;
>>>>> border-right-style: solid;
>>>>> border-bottom-style: solid;
>>>>> border-left-style: solid;
>>>>> border-right-color: #8c7c6f;
>>>>> border-bottom-color: #22170D;
>>>>> border-left-color: #2E2012;
>>>>> border-top-width: 1px;
>>>>> border-top-style: solid;
>>>>> border-top-color: #998A7D;
>>>>> background-position: left top;
>>>>> padding: 15px;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> ...works in FF but not in IE, when
applied to a table?
>>>>>
>>>>> (IE ignores it... so does the
Dreamweaver design view.)
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I set padding for all tables
through this class? What am I
>>>>> doing wrong? :-(
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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