Maybe I am being too picky. I want to put cell padding in some tables but not others, without editing every single td element. I would like to make it html5 compliant, which means not using the cellpadding property of the table. But I would like something equivalent to cellpadding - ie something I can apply to the properties of a whole table, on a table by table basis.
To make it even more complicated, I want collapsed borders, which I think rules out using the cell spacing property. Is there something tricky I can do there?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
}
.cell-pad th,.cell-pad td{padding:10px}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Table without cellpadding:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>January</td>
<td>$100</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Table with cellpadding:</p>
<table cellpadding="10">
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>January</td>
<td>$100</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Table with css:</p>
<table class="cell-pad">
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>January</td>
<td>$100</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>