How to style table with only vertical cell spacing?

the cellpadding attribute, which I assume you're talking about, will only take a number and use it as pixels between the cell wall and content. You'll have to come up with a workaround, depending on your layout you may want to use a <div> instead, or if there aren't any borders around the cells you can add style='padding-bottom:25px' to it to create the same effect.

Just add this in the < head > section, just after the head tag opening of your page: This should do the work:

<style type="text/css">
td { margin: 25px 0px; } /* tells the table to have 25 
px on top and bottom, zero px on left and right */
</style>