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border-spacing in Yahoo Mail

Works border-spacing works in Yahoo 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

instead
<table cellspacing="8" style="border-collapse: separate;">
  <tr><td>Cell</td></tr>
</table>
Show the original
before
<table style="border-spacing: 8px; border-collapse: separate;">
  <tr><td>Cell</td></tr>
</table>

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What Yahoo Mail does with border-spacing

The Emailens probe for border-spacing on a real install counted as Yahoo Mail, captured 14 Oct 2026. It shows the probe, not the fix. Where border-spacing is supported it shows: 8px gaps between cells.

Yahoo Mail

caniemail: border-spacing works in Yahoo Mail.

Your next question

Every feature in Yahoo Mail · border-spacing in every client

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 Yahoo Mail iOS?
border-spacing works in Yahoo Mail iOS. Closest to Yahoo Mail: Yahoo Mail iOS, which agrees on 282 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