Title: Table cellpadding being overwritten?
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Table cellpadding being overwritten?
* Resolved [michaelborger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelborger/)
* (@michaelborger)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/)
* Hello everybody. Regarding the page at:
* [http://bigrockinvestments.com/submit-your-property/](http://bigrockinvestments.com/submit-your-property/)
* the cellpadding and cellspacing in the table code is not working. It’s in the
HTML code, but I think it’s being overwritten somewhere else in the theme. I
can change the values in the page HTML to whatever I want, but it doesn’t change
anything.
* Instead of adding this code to every | , where in the theme could I look for
and make this change? I’m not good at CSS or PHP, so I’m a bit hesitant to just
go in there and start playing with things. If your recommendation includes any
CSS or PHP modifications, please be as specific as possible so I can follow your
instructions as best I can.
* I ultimately want to make this table 4 columns instead of two to reduce scrolling,
but I want to get the padding and spacing down first.
* Thanks for your help.
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* [Purab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressapi/)
* (@wordpressapi)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826951)
* just put the following css code in your style.css file
`td{margin:px}` This
will solve your issue. for creating you need to change your theme file.
* Anonymous User
* (@anonymized-3085)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826955)
* that CSS code does not look right. surely it should be
* ```
td{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
```
* [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
* (@root)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826956)
* a good reset / base is needed to iron out browser variations in tables
* Thread Starter [michaelborger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelborger/)
* (@michaelborger)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826958)
* Thank you for your feedback, folks. Would you be so kind as to tell me exactly
where in my style.css I should add these lines of code?
* [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
* (@root)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826960)
* at the bottom………..
* Thread Starter [michaelborger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelborger/)
* (@michaelborger)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826965)
* I added
* ```
td{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
```
* as the last lines in my style.css but unfortunately nothing changed on the table
itself. I’ve added cellspacing and cellpadding values of 100 so it will be obvious
when the changes are in effect. I’m looking at this in both Safari and Firefox
in my Macbook Pro.
* [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
* (@root)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826966)
* do a hard reload in yr browser
* Thread Starter [michaelborger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelborger/)
* (@michaelborger)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826968)
* No changes. Are you seeing large spacing and padding on your browser for that
page?
* [http://bigrockinvestments.com/submit-your-property/](http://bigrockinvestments.com/submit-your-property/)
* Thread Starter [michaelborger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelborger/)
* (@michaelborger)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826970)
* Ok I see now. When I change the values in the above code in the CSS, it makes
the changes anywhere there’s a table | on the entire website, naturally. However,
even changing those values for margin and padding from 0 to 1 makes a HUGE difference
in the layout.
* Also, I only want to affect the table on the above page that I referenced, not
every table everywhere in the website. Isn’t this possible?
* So right now I have in the HTML of the table on that specific page:
`` but it’s not taking. I can make
those values 1000 but it doesn’t matter.
* [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
* (@root)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826972)
* mixing html and styling – css – is a disaster
* Thread Starter [michaelborger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelborger/)
* (@michaelborger)
* [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-cellpadding-being-overwritten/#post-1826975)
* Ok I can see how that might be a problem. And I just played with some numbers
and think I have it all figured out now. I need to learn some CSS going forward
so I understand my site better — I think I’m having similar conflicts between
HTML in my site admin panel’s posts and pages and the CSS in my stylesheet.
* I’ll get it figured out.
* Thanks for all your help.
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* [cellpadding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cellpadding/)
* [cellspacing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cellspacing/)
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