'cellpadding' sets the empty width between a cell's border and its content
<HTML> <head> <Title>Example For cellpadding</Title> </head> <BODY> <table width="542" cellpadding="15"> <tr> <th height="79" colspan="2">This table has cellpadding="15"; </th> </tr> <tr><td>Cell 1 </td> <td>Cell 2 </td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML>