Thread:StrangerFromTheInternet/@comment-27042449-20170208062230/@comment-29898844-20170215122107

style="padding:16px;" would technically work, yes - but you'd have to set this style on each and every cell of the table individually.

See, "padding" is a property of the table cells and not of the table itself. There's no way to set the padding for all cells at one location. The "cellpadding" property of the table is always overridden by the wiki's CSS. If we could do something like actual inline CSS (i.e. not just the "style" property of an element), we could use CSS selectors to solve this problem more elegantly.

But this isn't a problem with just one single table anyways - table contents in general look pretty messed up with the padding we're currently using.

Finally, why I used em and not px: em scales with the font size. 5px looks fine for a normal font size, but if people were to put text with a font size of 20pt inside a table, it would start to look very strange again very quickly. I'm just trying to be as general as possible, basically :P