Thread:Barnswallow/@comment-27000840-20170102160312/@comment-25205196-20170103085526

The space between cells is set by cellspacing, the space within a cell is set by cellpadding. You can't decrease the space within a row: it's set for the whole table and depends on the widest item. Here the words in the last row are wider than 'milk' or 'bacon' so the width of any cell is adjusted to these wider words. Nothing would be aligned correctly otherwise: you'd have rows and cells with different widths.