How do you specify table padding in CSS? ( table, not cell padding )

Question

The easiest/best supported method is to use <table cellspacing="10">

The css way: border-spacing (not supported by IE I don’t think)

    <!-- works in firefox, opera, safari, chrome -->
    <style type="text/css">
    
    table.foobar {
    	border: solid black 1px;
    	border-spacing: 10px;
    }
    table.foobar td {
    	border: solid black 1px;
    }
    
    
    </style>
    
    <table class="foobar" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr><td>foo</td><td>bar</td></tr>
    </table>

Edit: if you just want to pad the cell content, and not space them you can simply use

<table cellpadding="10">

OR

td {
    padding: 10px;
}

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