How to remove unwanted space between rows and columns in table?

Html Problem Overview

How do I remove the extra space between the rows and columns in the table.

I've tried changing the margin, padding, and various border properties on the table and tr and td.

I want the pictures to all be right next to each other to look like one big image.

How should I fix this?

CSS

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

HTML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <title>Tera Byte Video Game Creation Camp</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"></link>
</head>

<body>
  <table class="mytable" align="center">
    <tr class="header">
      <td colspan="3"><img src="images/home_01.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="top">
      <td colspan="3"><img src="images/home_02.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_03.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_04.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_05.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_07.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_06.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_08.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_09.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_10.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_11.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="link-row">
      <td><img src="images/home_12.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_13.png" /></td>
      <td><img src="images/home_14.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="bottom">
      <td colspan="3"><img src="images/home_15.png" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>

</body>

</html>

Html Solutions

Solution 1 - Html

Adding to vectran's answer: You also have to set cellspacing attribute on the table element for cross-browser compatibility.

<table cellspacing="0">

EDIT (for the sake of completeness I'm expanding this 5 years later:):

Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 required you to set cellspacing directly as a table attribute, otherwise the spacing wouldn't vanish.

Internet Explorer 8 and later versions and all other versions of popular browsers - Chrome, Firefox, Opera 4+ - support the CSS property border-spacing.

So in order to make a cross-browser table cell spacing reset (supporting IE6 as a dinosaur browser), you can follow the below code sample:

table{
  border: 1px solid black;
}
table td {
  border: 1px solid black; /* Style just to show the table cell boundaries */
}


table.no-spacing {
  border-spacing:0; /* Removes the cell spacing via CSS */
  border-collapse: collapse;  /* Optional - if you don't want to have double border where cells touch */
}

<p>Default table:</p>

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>First cell</td>
    <td>Second cell</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p>Removed spacing:</p>

<table class="no-spacing" cellspacing="0"> <!-- cellspacing 0 to support IE6 and IE7 -->
  <tr>
    <td>First cell</td>
    <td>Second cell</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Solution 2 - Html

Add this CSS reset to your CSS code: (From here)

/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ 
   v2.0 | 20110126
   License: none (public domain)
*/

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed, 
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, 
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	font-size: 100%;
	font: inherit;
	vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, 
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
	display: block;
}
body {
	line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
	list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
	quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
	content: '';
	content: none;
}
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
}

It'll reset the CSS effectively, getting rid of the padding and margins.

Solution 3 - Html

This worked for me:

#table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border-spacing: 0;
}

Solution 4 - Html

For images in td, use this for images:

display: block;

That removes unwanted space for me

Solution 5 - Html

Just adding on top of Jacob's answer, for img in td,

body {line-height: 0;}
img {display: block; vertical-align: bottom;}

This works for most email clients, including Gmail. But not Outlook. For outlook, you need to do two steps more:

table {border-collapse: collapse;}

and set every td elements to have the same height and width as its contained images. For example,

<td width="600" height="80" style="line-height: 80px;">
	<img height="80" src="http://www.website.com/images/Nature_01.jpg" width="600" />
</td>

Solution 6 - Html

table 
{
    border-collapse: collapse;
}

will collapse all borders separating the table columns...

or try

<table cellspacing="0" style="border-spacing: 0;">

do all cell-spacing to 0 and border spacing 0 to achieve same.

have a fun!

Solution 7 - Html

For standards compliant HTML5 add all this css to remove all space between images in tables:

table { 
    border-spacing: 0;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
    padding:0px;
}
td img {
    display:block;
}

Solution 8 - Html

Try this,

table{
border-collapse: collapse; /* 'cellspacing' equivalent */
}

table td, 
table th{
padding: 0; /* 'cellpadding' equivalent */
}

Solution 9 - Html

All I had to do was add:

line-height: 0px;

in my

<tr ...>

Solution 10 - Html

setting Cellpadding and cellspacing to 0 will remove the unnecessary space between rows and columns...

Solution 11 - Html

adding this line to the beginning of the file s worked for me:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

modifying the css to set the proper border properties did not work until i added the above line

Solution 12 - Html

table{
  border: 1px solid black;
}
table td {
  border: 1px solid black; /* Style just to show the table cell boundaries */
}


table.no-spacing {
  border-spacing:0; /* Removes the cell spacing via CSS */
  border-collapse: collapse;  /* Optional - if you don't want to have double border where cells touch */
}

<p>Default table:</p>

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>First cell</td>
    <td>Second cell</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p>Removed spacing:</p>

<table class="no-spacing" cellspacing="0"> <!-- cellspacing 0 to support IE6 and IE7 -->
  <tr>
    <td>First cell</td>
    <td>Second cell</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Solution 13 - Html

I had this problem and none of the suggestions from several posts worked, I tried them all. My problem turned out that the table I was creating is nested in another table, inheriting on its properties. I needed to override the container table.

In this example, SuColTable is class on the table.

.SuColTable tr {
    border: none !important;
}

.SuColTable td {
    border-spacing: 0 !important;
    border: none !important;
    margin: 0 !important;
    padding-top: 0 !important;
    padding-bottom: 0 !important;
    padding-right: 0 !important;
}


.SuColTable {
    border-collapse: collapse !important;
    border: none !important;
    border-spacing: 0 !important;
    border-collapse: separate !important;
    padding-left: 0 !important;
    padding-top: 0 !important;
    padding-bottom: 0 !important;
}
// all padding would be padding: 0 !important

The border-collapse, border:none and border-spacing get rid of table/row/column line. The padding 0 calls get rid the padding from the container table. I had to including !important on every style for it work, in order override the container table styles.

I have padding_top, left and bottom (instead of only padding) because I have two other classes that control the padding_right.

line-height: 0px;

Line-height zero makes the row one line high. If you have several lines, they are compressed into one line.

Solution 14 - Html

Have you tried removing the TRs that have a colspan and see if it changes anything?

I have experienced colspans and rowspans to be pretty nasty when it comes down to accurate table-designs. If your images look alright without the colspan-TRs, I'd start from there and build a nested tableset.

Also your style.css doesn't seem to be complete, maybe there's something wrong there? I'd at least add padding: 0; margin: 0; to the table (or to the class "mytable"). Make sure, your images don't have spaces and/or borders, too (e.g. by adding img { border: 0; } to your stylesheet).

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