Problem setting the left/right/top/bottom padding of a table to different values

[tonyb]

I want to set the padding, in a table with only one cell, to say 50px on the right and left, but only 5px for the top and bottom. I thought this was possible before I tried it. I'm using Dreamweaver, and I used the padding options in the 'box' category of the CSS rule dialog box to create a rule which I applied to the table. But it didn't work . I also tried putting the padding CSS inline with the table tag with the style attribute, also didn't work.
Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Tony

[welshstew]

Hi Tony,

Check out this article to help you set out perfect tables: http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/develop...perfect-tables

Remembering, of course, that tables are for data not layout - for layout you should be using css and tabless layouts

[tonyb]

Thanks a lot I'll check out the article