How to remove unwanted space between rows and columns in table?
Add this CSS reset to your CSS code: (From here)
/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
v2.0 | 20110126
License: none (public domain)
*/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed,
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup,
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure,
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
display: block;
}
body {
line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
content: '';
content: none;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
It'll reset the CSS effectively, getting rid of the padding and margins.
This worked for me:
#table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
For images in td, use this for images:
display: block;
That removes unwanted space for me
Adding to vectran's answer: You also have to set cellspacing
attribute on the table element for cross-browser compatibility.
<table cellspacing="0">
EDIT (for the sake of completeness I'm expanding this 5 years later:):
Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 required you to set cellspacing directly as a table attribute, otherwise the spacing wouldn't vanish.
Internet Explorer 8 and later versions and all other versions of popular browsers - Chrome, Firefox, Opera 4+ - support the CSS property border-spacing.
So in order to make a cross-browser table cell spacing reset (supporting IE6 as a dinosaur browser), you can follow the below code sample:
table{
border: 1px solid black;
}
table td {
border: 1px solid black; /* Style just to show the table cell boundaries */
}
table.no-spacing {
border-spacing:0; /* Removes the cell spacing via CSS */
border-collapse: collapse; /* Optional - if you don't want to have double border where cells touch */
}
<p>Default table:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>First cell</td>
<td>Second cell</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Removed spacing:</p>
<table class="no-spacing" cellspacing="0"> <!-- cellspacing 0 to support IE6 and IE7 -->
<tr>
<td>First cell</td>
<td>Second cell</td>
</tr>
</table>