Sorry, that code example should read ...

td { [edit] padding: 4px; [edit] }

... not 0px as that was my change to correct the exploding table problem, however this now means all my Mantis tables are a little tight. The opposite view I suppose is that I should be setting classes for each of my header/footer tables and leaving the generalisation up to mantis.

I think both Mantis and your header/footers should use specialised styles. The easy way to do that in Mantis is to define the formatting of td/p/table/... when they are inside a

<div class="mantis">
...
<td> this automatically uses padding of 4 without specifying a class </td>
</div>

Hello,

I think that this issue (if it still exists) is something best dealt with as part of the planned changes with regards to look/feel and templates.

Thanks
Paul