Table margin top / bottom only (without CSS)

Question

I am working on a Newsletter and am therefore pretty much forced to use tables.

According to this source, "margin-top" and "margin-bottom" is not supported by Outlook 2007/10/13. Since Outlook is a requirement for my Newsletter, I need a workaround.

Obviously there's "cellspacing", I however do sometimes want to apply margin-top/bottom without left/right. How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

In the end I was able to solve this problem to my satisfaction by adding empty rows (without images) with a fixed height. This actually seems to be working fine with quite a lot email clients.

Answer 2

If you needed pixel perfect height I would pad an empty cell with a spacer (clear 1px x 1px gif).