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    copied!<p><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong></p> <p>I would like to have small labels in columns of a table. I'm using some implemented parts of HTML5/CSS3 in my project, and this section specifically is for mobile devices. While both facts are not necessarily relevant, the bottom line is that I don't have to support Internet Explorer or even Firefox for that matter (just WebKit).</p> <p><strong>THE PROBLEM</strong></p> <p>With my current CSS approach, the vertical padding of the cell comes from the &lt;<code>span</code>> element (set to <code>display: block</code> with top/bottom margins), which contains the "value" of the column. As a result there's no padding when the <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> is empty or missing (no value) and the label is not in place.</p> <p>The "full" coulmns should give you the idea of where I want the labels to be, even if there's no value, and the <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> is not there.</p> <p>I realize that I could use "non-breaking-space", but I would really like to avoid it.</p> <p>I wonder if any of you have a fix / better way to do this? current code is below.</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;ah&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style&gt; body { width: 320px; } /* TABLE */ table { width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; } th, td { border: 1px solid #ccc; border-width: 0px 0px 1px 1px; } th:last-child, td:last-child { border-right-width: 1px; } tr:first-child th { border-top-width: 1px; background: #efefef; } /* RELEVANT STUFF */ td { padding: 3px; } td sup { display: block; } td span { display: block; margin: 3px 0px; text-align: center; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th colspan="3"&gt;something&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;sup&gt;some label&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;any content&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;sup&gt;some label&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;any content&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;sup&gt;some label&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- No content, just a label --&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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