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HTML

<table>    
    <tr>
        <td>text</td>
        <td>text</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>text</td>
        <td>text</td>
    </tr>
     <tr>
        <td>text</td>
        <td>text</td>
    </tr>
</table>

CSS

table {
    border-spacing: 0 35px;
    position: relative;
    margin: auto;
}
td:first-child:before {
    position:absolute;
    content: "";    
    width: 100%;
    height: 10px;
    background: red;
    left: -25%;
    width: 150%;
    margin-top: -25px;
}

td {
    line-height: 1;
    padding: 0 20px;
}