You can easily set padding inside the table cells using the CSS padding property. It is a valid way to produce the same effect as the table's cellpadding attribute.
table,
th,
td {
border: 1px solid #666;
}
table th,
table td {
padding: 10px;
/* Apply cell padding */
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Set Cellpadding in CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Row</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Clark</td>
<td>Kent</td>
<td>clarkkent@mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Peter</td>
<td>Parker</td>
<td>peterparker@mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>John</td>
<td>Rambo</td>
<td>johnrambo@mail.com</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>Similarly, you can use the CSS border-spacing property to apply the spacing between adjacent table cell borders like the cellspacing attribute. However, in order to work border-spacing the value of border-collapse property muse be separate, which is default.
table {
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 10px;
/* Apply cell spacing */
}
table,
th,
td {
border: 1px solid #666;
}
table th,
table td {
padding: 5px;
/* Apply cell padding */
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Set Cellspacing in CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Row</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Clark</td>
<td>Kent</td>
<td>clarkkent@mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Peter</td>
<td>Parker</td>
<td>peterparker@mail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>John</td>
<td>Rambo</td>
<td>johnrambo@mail.com</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>