[thelist] PAGE OPTIMIZATION: source readability v. download weight

[Ken Kogler]

> > Bruce,
> > this works (Win IE 5.x /6, Moz 1, Opera 6)
> > td {
> > border: 2px solid #fff ;
> > padding: 3px ;
> > }

> But the point at hand was not about cellpadding
> (which your example addresses), but about cellspacing.
> IE doesn't allow you to adjust _cellspacing_ in CSS;
> it does allow you to adjust the padding of the cell.

Right, but he's setting the background color of the page to white (which got
snipped out of the above reply), then adding a 2px white border to each
table cell. This has the same effect as cellspacing.

A rather clever idea, if I do say so...

-Ken