HtmlTable.CellSpacing Property

 

Gets or sets the amount of space (in pixels) between adjacent cells in the HtmlTable control.

Namespace:   System.Web.UI.HtmlControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Public Property CellSpacing As Integer

Property Value

Type: System.Int32

The amount of space (in pixels) between adjacent cells in the HtmlTable control. The default value is -1, which indicates that this property is not set.

Use the CellSpacing property to control the spacing between individual cells in the HtmlTable control. This spacing is applied both vertically and horizontally.

The following code example demonstrates how to use the CellSpacing property to programmatically control the spacing of cells in the HtmlTable control.

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="True" %>

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

  Sub Button_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

    ' Set the HtmlTable properties according to the
    ' user selections.
    Table1.CellSpacing = CInt(SpacingSelect.Value)
    Table1.CellPadding = CInt(PaddingSelect.Value)
    Table1.Align = AlignSelect.Value

  End Sub

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
   <title>HtmlTable Example</title>
</head>
<body>

   <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>HtmlTable Example</h3>

      <table id="Table1" 
             style="border-width:1; border-color:Black"
             runat="server">

         <tr>
            <th>
               Column 1
            </th>
            <th>
               Column 2
            </th>
            <th>
               Column 3
            </th>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>
               Cell 1
            </td>
            <td>
               Cell 2
            </td>
            <td>
               Cell 3
            </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>
               Cell 4
            </td>
            <td>
               Cell 5
            </td>
            <td>
               Cell 6
            </td>
         </tr>

      </table>

      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

      <hr />

      Select the display settings: <br /><br />

      Align:
      <select id="AlignSelect" 
              runat="server">

         <option value="Left">Left</option>
         <option value="Center">Center</option>
         <option value="Right">Right</option>

      </select>

      &nbsp;&nbsp;

      CellPadding:
      <select id="PaddingSelect" 
              runat="server">

         <option value="0">0</option>
         <option value="1">1</option>
         <option value="2">2</option>
         <option value="3">3</option>
         <option value="4">4</option>
         <option value="5">5</option>

      </select>

      &nbsp;&nbsp;

      CellSpacing:
      <select id="SpacingSelect" 
              runat="server">

         <option value="0">0</option>
         <option value="1">1</option>
         <option value="2">2</option>
         <option value="3">3</option>
         <option value="4">4</option>
         <option value="5">5</option>

      </select>

      <br /><br />

      <input type="button" 
             value="Generate Table"
             onserverclick="Button_Click" 
             runat="server"/>

   </form>

</body>
</html>

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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