title: How to change padding of a table within markdown?
body: <p>I'm building tables using Jekyll Spaceship and am not happy with how much space a single row takes up. My tables are quite simple which I have in a markdown file.</p>
  <pre><code>|              Stage | Direct Products | ATP Yields |
  | -----------------: | --------------: | ---------: |
  |         Glycolysis |          2 ATP              ||
  | Pyruvaye oxidation |          2 NADH |      5 ATP |
  |  Citric acid cycle |          2 ATP              ||
  |                               30--32 ATP        |||
  </code></pre>
  <p>My problem is that the text takes up not even half the cell space with padding above and below the text.</p>
  <p>How would I decrease the padding in a markdown file for rows in a table?</p>
  <p>I've also tried adding the following ...</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;style&gt;
  table, th, td {
      padding: 1px;
  }
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;div class=&quot;bettertd&quot;&gt;
  
  | .... placed markdown tables here ... |
  
  &lt;/div&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  <p>And this put this in CSS ...</p>
  <pre><code>.features table {
      styles=&quot;padding:1px&quot;;
  }
  </code></pre>
  <p>But didn't work.</p>