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The HTML cellpadding attribute controls the amount of space between the contents of a table cell and its borders.
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Is it true that the HTML cellpadding attribute controls the amount of space between the contents of a table cell and its borders?
Yes. The HTML cellpadding attribute is widely documented as controlling the space or distance between the contents of a table cell and its borders.
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Wikipedia: Cellpadding. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellpadding
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It notes that cellpadding is used for uniform cell padding to space text from each cell's border.
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Wikibooks: Wikibooks: Editing Wikitext/Tables. (n.d.). Wikibooks. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Editing_Wikitext/Tables
It defines cell padding as the distance between the information and the sides of the table cells.
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Wikibooks: Wikibooks: HyperText Markup Language/Print version. (n.d.). Wikibooks. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/HyperText_Markup_Language/Print_version
It explicitly defines cell padding as the pixel space inside cells, i.e., the distance between information and cell sides.
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Wikibooks: Wikibooks: HyperText Markup Language/Tables. (n.d.). Wikibooks. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/HyperText_Markup_Language/Tables
It states that the optional cellpadding attribute sets the space around a cell.
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Wikibooks: Wikibooks: HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/table. (n.d.). Wikibooks. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/HyperText_Markup_Language/Tag_List/table
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