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Border-spacing: cell gaps differ from padding

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Published: 23 Oct 2026 08:23 · Updated: 23 Oct 2026 08:23

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border-spacing sets the distance between adjacent cell borders when border-collapse is separate. Two values allow different horizontal and vertical gaps.

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border-spacing sets the distance between adjacent cell borders when border-collapse is separate. Two values allow different horizontal and vertical gaps. [1]

This is not the space between text and its border; padding controls that. If the setting has no effect, first check the border model, then identify which of the two distances you intend to change.

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[1] MDN — CSS border-spacing ↗