fix(#130): apply column style padding to headers and cells

table/header.go

@@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ func (m Model) renderHeaders() string {
 		borderOverhead := borderStyle.GetBorderLeftSize() + borderStyle.GetBorderRightSize()
 		style := borderStyle.Inherit(column.style).Inherit(m.baseStyle).Width(column.width + borderOverhead)
 
-		headerSection := limitStr(column.title, column.width)
+		// lipgloss Inherit() explicitly skips padding/margin, so apply column
+		// padding directly to ensure it takes effect.
+		colPadTop, colPadRight, colPadBottom, colPadLeft := column.style.GetPadding()
+		if colPadTop != 0 || colPadRight != 0 || colPadBottom != 0 || colPadLeft != 0 {
+			style = style.Padding(colPadTop, colPadRight, colPadBottom, colPadLeft)
+		}
+
+		contentWidth := max(column.width-colPadLeft-colPadRight, 0)
+		headerSection := limitStr(column.title, contentWidth)
 
 		return style.Render(headerSection)
 	}

table/row.go

@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ func (r Row) WithStyle(style lipgloss.Style) Row {
 func (m Model) renderRowColumnData(row Row, column Column, rowStyle lipgloss.Style, borderStyle lipgloss.Style) string {
 	cellStyle := rowStyle.Inherit(column.style).Inherit(m.baseStyle)
 
+	// lipgloss Inherit() explicitly skips padding/margin, so apply column
+	// padding directly to ensure it takes effect.
+	colPadTop, colPadRight, colPadBottom, colPadLeft := column.style.GetPadding()
+	if colPadTop != 0 || colPadRight != 0 || colPadBottom != 0 || colPadLeft != 0 {
+		cellStyle = cellStyle.Padding(colPadTop, colPadRight, colPadBottom, colPadLeft)
+	}
+
 	var str string
 
 	switch column.key {
@@ -107,11 +114,15 @@ func (m Model) renderRowColumnData(row Row, column Column, rowStyle lipgloss.Sty
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Reduce the available text width by any horizontal column padding so that
+	// content is truncated/wrapped to the inner content area, not the full cell.
+	contentWidth := max(column.width-colPadLeft-colPadRight, 0)
+
 	if m.multiline {
-		str = ansi.Wordwrap(str, column.width, "")
+		str = ansi.Wordwrap(str, contentWidth, "")
 		cellStyle = cellStyle.Align(lipgloss.Top)
 	} else {
-		str = limitStr(str, column.width)
+		str = limitStr(str, contentWidth)
 	}
 
 	// In lipgloss v2, Width() sets the *total* outer width (including borders).

table/view_test.go

@@ -1922,3 +1922,21 @@ func TestRowBorderNoSeparatorBeforePaddingRows(t *testing.T) {
 
 	assert.Equal(t, expectedTable, rendered)
 }
+
+func TestColumnStylePaddingAppliedToHeaderAndCells(t *testing.T) {
+	// Regression test for https://github.com/Evertras/bubble-table/issues/130.
+	// lipgloss Inherit() skips padding, so column padding was silently ignored.
+	cols := []Column{
+		NewColumn("a", "A", 10).
+			WithStyle(lipgloss.NewStyle().Padding(0, 1)),
+	}
+	rows := []Row{
+		NewRow(RowData{"a": "hello"}),
+		NewRow(RowData{"a": "very long text"}),
+	}
+
+	const expectedTable = "┏━━━━━━━━━━┓\n┃        A ┃\n┣━━━━━━━━━━┫\n┃    hello ┃\n┃ very lo… ┃\n┗━━━━━━━━━━┛"
+
+	rendered := New(cols).WithRows(rows).View()
+	assert.Equal(t, expectedTable, rendered)
+}