I've found this method to be the easiest way to create tables for formatting a page, it prevents a lot of confusion, especially if you are wanting to create a table inside a table cell as I have done on this page. This is repeated for the second and third rows. You may format the alignment, size, border width, margines inside the cells, space between the cells, and the background color of the table. The combinations of these formatting features will enable you to arrange your text and graphics to suit your needs. This will give the table a margin of 5 pixels between ever cell.
Thes determines the margin inside the cells.
This will give a margin of 5 pixels outside each cell and a margin of 8 pixels inside each cell. This will give the table a border in pixel width. This will give the table a border of 3 pixels as in the table below. According to what format you are wanting. If you want an entire row to be aligned you would use it in the TR tag.