Question

Consider the following code:

HTML:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Hello</td>
        <td>Stack</td>
        <td>Overflow</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>some</td>
        <td>text</td>
        <td>here</td>
    </tr>
</table>

CSS:

table {
    border-spacing: 40px 10px;
    border-collapse: separate;
}
tr:first-child {
    background-color: #aaa;
}
td {
    padding: 5px;
}

I would like the background color on the first row to be between the cells also.

How could I do this ?

Answer 1

This is not possible when using border-spacing, but you could try using individual cell padding instead…

table {
  border-collapse: separate;
}
tr:first-child td {
  background-color: #aaa;
}
td {
  padding: 10px 40px;
}

Live demo available here