td background: lightyellow;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
<head>
<title>width</title>
<style type='text/css'>
table {
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
td {
background: lightyellow;
}
table, td {
border: 1px solid gold;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Vestibulum tellus orci, dignissim ut, consequat in, consectetuer
et, nibh. Donec luctus ante a neque convallis ultricies.
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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