border-spacing in Apple Mail
Works border-spacing works in Apple Mail.
Works in 17 of 21 · not supported in 2 · 2 untested
Which clients
- Works
- Gmail, Gmail Android, Gmail iOS, Outlook 365, Outlook (New), Outlook iOS, Outlook Android, Apple Mail, Apple Mail iOS, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android, Yahoo Mail iOS, Samsung Mail, Thunderbird, Proton Mail, AOL Mail, Superhuman
- Not supported
- Outlook Classic, Outlook for Mac
- Untested
- HEY Mail, Fastmail
The fix for the clients that need it
Needed in 2 of 21: Outlook Classic and Outlook for Mac.
Use the cellspacing HTML attribute instead of border-spacing CSS
<table cellspacing="8" style="border-collapse: separate;">
<tr><td>Cell</td></tr>
</table>Show the original
<table style="border-spacing: 8px; border-collapse: separate;">
<tr><td>Cell</td></tr>
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What Apple Mail does with border-spacing
The Emailens probe for border-spacing on a real install counted as Apple Mail, captured 14 Oct 2026. It shows the probe, not the fix. Where border-spacing is supported it shows: 8px gaps between cells.
caniemail: border-spacing works in Apple Mail.
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Questions
- How many email clients support border-spacing?
- It works in 17 of 21, not supported in Outlook Classic and Outlook for Mac, 2 untested.
- Does border-spacing work in Apple Mail iOS?
- border-spacing works in Apple Mail iOS. Closest to Apple Mail: Apple Mail iOS, which agrees on 284 of the 298 features both are tested on.
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Real captures 14 Oct 2026 on 10 installs · caniemail (MIT) via @emailens/engine 0.18.22 · tested upstream 20 Dec 2023 · data last changed 10 Nov 2026 · Outlook (New) cells are the engine's mapping