space between divs - display table-cell

Question

I have here two divs:

<div style="display:table-cell" id="div1">
    content
</div>

<div style="display:table-cell" id="div2">
    content
</div>

Is there a way to make space between these two divs (that have display:table-cell)?

Answer 1

You can use border-spacing property:

HTML:

<div class="table">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="cell">Cell 1</div>
        <div class="cell">Cell 2</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

.table {
  display: table;
  border-collapse: separate;
  border-spacing: 10px;
}

.row { display:table-row; }

.cell {
  display:table-cell;
  padding:5px;
  background-color: gold;
}

JSBin Demo

Any other option?

Well, not really.

Why?

• margin property is not applicable to display: table-cell elements.
• padding property doesn't create space between edges of the cells.
• float property destroys the expected behavior of table-cell elements which are able to be as tall as their parent element.