HTML cellpadding does not work with the CSS sheet

[jmcg]

I have a page using CSS, there is no CSS controlling tables however when I use cellpadding in the <table> tag it is not doing anything. Both cellspacing and border are working but not cellpadding.
Is there something obvious I am doing wrong? This is in IE 6,as it is for internal use I do not need to worry about cross browser.
If I remove the CSS link the table appears with the padding.

Code for the table

<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" border="1">

and the style sheet

/* standard elements */
html {min-height: 100%;}

* {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

a {color: blue;}
a:active {color: blue;}
a:visited {color: blue;}
a:hover {color: #C60;}

body {
	background: #CCD6CC;
	color: #444;
	font: normal 62.5% "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
	text-align:center
}

p,ul {padding-bottom: 1.2em;}

li {list-style: none;}

h1 {
	font: normal 1.8em "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
}

h2 {
	font: normal 1.2em "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
}

/* misc */
.clearer {clear: both;}

/* structure */
.container {
	background: #FFF;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	margin: 0 auto;
	padding: 0 10px 10px;
	width: 750px;
	text-align:left
}

/* header */
.top {		
	padding: 20px 0 0;
}

/* title */
.header {
	background: #FFF;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 750px;
	text-align:left;
}

.small {
	font: normal 0.8em "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
}

.cLeft{
	display: inline;
	margin: 0;
	float:left;
	padding: 2px;
	width: 50%;
}
.cRight{
	display: inline;
	margin: 0;
	float:right;
	padding: 2px;
	width: 50%;
}

.cLarge{
	background: #FFF;
	display: inline;
	font-size: 1.0em;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 2px;
	width: 200px;
}
.cNorm{
	background: #FFF;
	display: inline;
	font-size: 1.0em;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 2px;
	width: 100px;
}
.cSmall{
	background: #FFF;
	display: inline;
	font-size: 1.0em;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 2px;
	width: 10px;
}
.cGen{
	background: #FFF;
	display: inline;
	font-size: 1.0em;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 2px;
}

h4{
	margin-left:200px;
	font: normal 1.5em "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
	margin-top:-140px;
}



/* main */
.main {
	border-top: 4px solid #FFF;
}

/* side navigation */
.sidenav {
	float: right;
	width: 100px;
	background-color: #FFFF80;
	height: 500px;
}
.sidenav h2 {
	color: #5A5A43;
	font-size: 1em;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 2px 0 2px 12px;
}
.sidenav ul {
	padding: 0;
	border-top: 1px solid White;
}
.sidenav li {
	border-bottom: 1px solid White;
}

.sidenav li a {
	font-size: 1em;
	color: #554;
	display: block;
	padding: 2px 0 2px 12px;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.sidenav li a:visited {
	font-size: 1em;
	color: #554;
	display: block;
	padding: 2px 0 2px 12px;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.sidenav li a:active {
	font-size: 1em;
	color: #554;
	display: block;
	padding: 2px 0 2px 12px;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.sidenav li a:hover {
	background: #F0F0EB;
	color: #654;	
}

.current {
	background-color: White;
}

/* content */
.content {
	float: left;
	margin: 10px 0;
	padding: 0 16px;
	width: 630px;
}

.content p {font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;}

.man {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; 
	font-size: 0.8em;
}

/* footer */
.footer {
	background: url(images/bgfooter.gif) repeat-x;
	color: #FFF;
	font: bold 1em sans-serif;
	text-align: center;
}
.footer a,.footer a:hover {color: #FFF;}

 

[Vragabond]

At the beginning of your stylesheet you specify this:

* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

which means that all elements on the page will have margin 0 and padding 0. Cellpadding equals padding applied to the td element. Since CSS always takes priority over html attributes, your td element will have padding 0 (as per the CSS instruction) instead of whatever you're specifying via cellpadding. Cellspacing and border are not defined anywhere in your CSS, thus the values from the attributes are respected.

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[jmcg]

Thanks vragabond works fine now!