[snip] however I want some whitespace between the image(and the text above and below it) and the table border [/snip] This is now deprecated, but since it is NN4.7 (or is that really the only browser you're designing for?) you could use hspace and vspace in the image tag. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#adef-hspace Better to set up a <div> class for the image(s) and specify margins for that <div>. Jay