Setting column width in table

  • Resolved Howard Harkness

    (@chltx)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    WP 3.8.1
    Raindrops theme (added CSS in child theme)
    http://nichefind.com (testing host)

    I can’t get the width of the columns in my table to change at all.

    I was able to get the table width to change to 370px with:

    .eventschedule{
   font-size:14px;
}

table.eventschedule{
   width:370px;
}

    I was able to affect the th and td elements with:

    td.eventschedule{
   font-size:14px;
}

.eventschedule th /*note that th.eventschedule doesn't work!*/
{
   font-size:18px;
   background-color:#cc0001;
   color:#ffffff;
   text-align:center;
}

    Per the above comment, th.eventschedule appears to differ from .eventschedule th — what is the difference?

    I was able to affect the text alignment, but NOT the column width, with the following CSS.

    .eventtime{ /* also tried td.eventtime and .eventtime td, no joy */
  width:100px !important;
  text-align:right;
}
.eventtext{
  width:auto !important;
  text-align:left;
}

    Could somebody teach me what I need to know to adjust the column widths in this table?

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  • Thread Starter Howard Harkness

    (@chltx)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Zero responses.

    After a couple of days of poking around, I managed to get the table appearance close to what I wanted with this CSS.

    /* table appearance ******************** */
.eventschedule{
   font-size:14px;
}
table{
table-layout:auto;
}
table.eventschedule{
   width:340px;
}
td.eventschedule{
   font-size:14px;
}
.eventschedule th{
   font-size:18px;
   background-color:#cc0001;
   color:#ffffff;
   text-align:center;
}
.eventtime{
  width:90px !important;
  text-align:right;
}
.eventtext{
  width:auto !important;
  text-align:left;
}

    I’m going to mark this one resolved, although it’s not really completely. I’m a bit disappointed.

    I wonder if my question was too simple or stupid.

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