Cellspacing Broken

[Quentin Harlech]

The cellspacing option for tables is broken. It simply doesn't do anything, and I cannot for the life of me make it work even with CSS (border-spacing).

Example	Table
Blah blah blah	Blabbity blah blah

Example	Table
Blah blah blah	Blabbity blah blah

In these two examples, the first one has a cellspacing of 5 while the second a cellspacing of 0. They shouldn't look identical, with only the second one looking the way it should with that setting.

Edited August 29, 2023 by Quentin Harlech (see edit history)

[Suzuki Stumpy]

I suspect that because the cellspacing and cellpadding attributes within HTML tables have been deprecated for some time, it may be the case that support for them has now been dropped by all the major browsers. [In fact, I'm pretty certain that they're not part of the HTML 5 specification].

Instead, you'll need to use CSS styling to achieve similar effects on the table cells.

[Quentin Harlech]

As mentioned in my previous post, it's not working even with the CSS border-spacing property. And no, it's not a browser issue as both cellspacing and border-spacing work fine on every modern browser and every other website on the Internet.

This is a Myth-Weavers issue. For some reason they are overriding and forcing border-spacing to 0 here despite offering it as an option in their own interface.

[Suzuki Stumpy]

Well, the CSS border-collapse attribute is set to 'collapse' on the table which overrides the border-spacing attribute (border-spacing also defaults to zero) if those two attributes are switched off in the developer tools then the cells do work out.

However, best practice is to have border-collapse set to collapse, so I can't imagine that being switched off in the defaults, but you could override that in your local table styling and set it to:

border-collapse: separate;

You'd should also set the border-spacing attribute to whatever you wish your spacing to be.

Just tried this on your first table above using the devtools in my browser and that appears to work fine.

[bwatford]

I can confirm, thanks @Suzuki Stumpy for the explanation of the issue. I have also checked that this is a site wide issue and not just a theme overriding anything. So definitely an Invision (out of the box) issue that we can report directly to them.

Thoughts @Eric ?