---
id: css-table-style
title: "CSS Table Style"
category: "Frontend"
status: "draft"
verification_status: "conceptual"
canonical_id: ""
aliases: ["table padding", "zebra-striped table", "hoverable table", "table borders", "nth-child table"]
duplicate_of: ""
source_trust_level: "B"
confidence_score: 0.89
created_at: 2026-06-23
updated_at: 2026-06-23
review_reason: ""
merge_history: []
tags: ["css", "web", "frontend", "w3schools", "table", "styling", "nth-child", "hover"]
raw_sources: ["https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_table_style.asp"]
applied_in: []
github_commit: ""
---

# [[CSS Table Styling]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
Tables become readable and attractive by adding cell padding, horizontal dividers, hover highlighting, zebra striping, and header colors. [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **Padding adds breathing room** — to add more space between the inner borders and the content in a table, use the `padding` property on `<td>` and `<th>` elements. [S1]
- **Horizontal dividers** — to create horizontal dividers for a table, add the `border-bottom` property to `<th>` and `<td>` elements. [S1]
- **Hover highlighting** — use the CSS `:hover` selector on `<tr>` to highlight table rows on mouse over. [S1]
- **Zebra striping** — for zebra-striped tables, use the `nth-child()` selector and add a `background-color` to all even (or odd) table rows. [S1]
- **Header coloring** — specify a `background-color` and a text `color` for the `<th>` elements. [S1]

## 🧩 추출된 패턴 (Extracted patterns)
- **Group selector for cells** — style `th, td` together to apply padding/borders uniformly across header and data cells. [S1]
- **Row-level pseudo-classes** — `tr:hover` and `tr:nth-child(even)` target whole rows for interactivity and striping. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
**CSS Table Padding**
To add some more space between the inner borders and the content in a table, use the `padding` property on `<td>` and `<th>` elements: [S1]
```css
th, td {
  padding: 10px;
  text-align: left;
}
```

**CSS Horizontal Dividers**
To create horizontal dividers for a table, add the `border-bottom` property to `<th>` and `<td>` elements: [S1]
```css
th, td {
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
}
```

**CSS Hoverable Table**
Use the CSS `:hover` selector on `<tr>` to highlight table rows on mouse over: [S1]
```css
tr:hover {background-color: coral;}
```

**CSS Zebra-striped Table**
For zebra-striped tables, use the `nth-child()` selector and add a `background-color` to all even (or odd) table rows: [S1]
```css
tr:nth-child(even) {background-color: #f2f2f2;}
```

**CSS Table Color**
The example below specifies a background color and a text color for the `<th>` elements: [S1]
```css
th {
  background-color: #04AA6D;
  color: white;
}
```

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
The page's own examples are the applied cases: 10px cell padding, 1px horizontal dividers, coral hover rows, `#f2f2f2` zebra striping on even rows, and a green (`#04AA6D`) header with white text. No external project/commit applications found in the source.

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Zebra striping (language: CSS):
```css
tr:nth-child(even) {background-color: #f2f2f2;}
```
Hover highlight (language: CSS):
```css
tr:hover {background-color: coral;}
```

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
No contradictions found in the source.

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual (실제 적용 사례 발견 시 applied/validated로 승격 가능)
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference, not a primary standards body)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.89
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[CSS Tutorial]]
- **관련 개념:** [[CSS Table Size]], [[CSS Table Alignment]], [[CSS Table Responsive]]
- **참조 맥락:** Referenced whenever visually styling an HTML table beyond plain borders.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — CSS Table Style — https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_table_style.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-06-23: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "CSS Table Style" page (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).