适用于空单元格的CSS Padding样式的Google Chrome Bug

I have a problem only in Google Chrome (Firefox, IE, Netscape, Safari and Opera are Okay) where a padding property which should be applied to text in a cell, is being applied to all empty cells aswell. It's easy to solve by adding more specific styles to my affected perimeter cells and using different styles, but that uses a lot of extra code and something which I try to save on. Is there possible way to get my CSS to pass over empty cells in the table it applies to?I have a problem only in Google Chrome (Firefox