17.4.44 tblCellSpacing

This element specifies a table cell spacing exception for all cells in the parent table row as part of a set of table- level property exceptions. If specified, this element specifies the minimum amount of space which shall be left between all cells in the parent row after including the width of the table borders in the calculation. This setting shall be superseded by the row cell spacing value (17.4.43). It is important to note that table-level cell spacing shall be added outside of the text margins, which shall be aligned with the innermost starting edge of the text extents in a table cell.

This value is specified in the units applied via its type attribute. Any width value of type pct or auto for this element shall be ignored.

[Example: Consider a table whose first cell has a six point wide table border, and a table cell spacing value of 0.01 inches. The resulting table would have 0.01 inches of space between each table cell regardless of the width of the cell border, as follows (notice that no border is covered by any other border):

R1C1

R1C2

R2C1

R2C2

end example]

If this element is omitted, then the row shall inherit the table cell spacing from the table-level cell spacing setting (17.4.42), excepting the case of a row level override.

[Example: Consider a table whose final two rows table-level property exception, as follows:

are defined to

have cell spacing of 0.1 inches for all sides via a

This table cell spacing exception is specified using the following WordprocessingML:

<w:tblPrEx>
  <w:tblCellSpacing w:w="144" w:type="dxa"/>
  …
</w:tblPrEx>

The tblCellSpacing element as a child of tblPrEx specifies the default cell spacing between all cells in final two rows in the current table, in this case 144 twentieths of a point. end example]

This element’s content model is defined by the common table measurement definition in 17.4.87.