Tables

Border Spacing

Utilities for controlling the spacing between table borders.

Quick reference

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Basic usage

Setting the border spacing

Use the border-spacing-*, border-spacing-x-*, and border-spacing-y-* utilities to control the space between the borders of table cells with separate borders.

<table class="border-separate border-spacing-2 border border-slate-400 ...">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th class="border border-slate-300 ...">State</th>
      <th class="border border-slate-300 ...">City</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td class="border border-slate-300 ...">Indiana</td>
      <td class="border border-slate-300 ...">Indianapolis</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td class="border border-slate-300 ...">Ohio</td>
      <td class="border border-slate-300 ...">Columbus</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td class="border border-slate-300 ...">Michigan</td>
      <td class="border border-slate-300 ...">Detroit</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Applying conditionally

Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:border-spacing-2 to only apply the border-spacing-2 utility on hover.

<table class="hover:border-spacing-2">
  <!-- ... -->
</table>

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:border-spacing-4 to apply the border-spacing-4 utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<table class="md:border-spacing-4">
  <!-- ... -->
</table>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

Using custom values

Customizing your theme

By default, Tailwind’s border spacing utilities use the default spacing scale. You can customize your spacing scale by editing theme.spacing or theme.extend.spacing in your tailwind.config.js file.

tailwind.config.js

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      spacing: {
        '13': '3.25rem',
      }
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can customize just the border spacing scale by editing theme.borderSpacing or theme.extend.borderSpacing in your tailwind.config.js file.

tailwind.config.js

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      borderSpacing: {
        '13': '3.25rem',
      },
    }
  }
}

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

Arbitrary values

If you need to use a one-off border-spacing value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

<div class="border-spacing-[7px]">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.