CSS Table Style

Table Padding

To control the space between the border and the content in a table, use the padding property on <td> and <th> elements:

th, td {
padding: 15px;
text-align: left;
}

Add the border-bottom property to <th> and <td> for horizontal dividers:

th, td {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
}

Use the :hover selector on <tr> to highlight table rows on mouse over:

tr:hover {background-color: coral;}

For zebra-striped tables, use the nth-child() selector and add a background-color to all even (or odd) table rows:

tr:nth-child(even) {background-color: #f2f2f2;}

The example below specifies the background color and text color of <th> elements:

th {
background-color: #04AA6D;
color: white;
}