Title: Adding space within a table
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding space within a table

 *  [greenpeas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greenpeas/)
 * (@greenpeas)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-space-within-a-table/)
 * I am trying to line up information, and wondering if I need to create a new table,
   or if there’s a way to add space like I’m adding this sentence.
 * Here’s what it’s looking like:
    [http://www.greenpeas.us/media/wp-issues/sdclifton1.png](http://www.greenpeas.us/media/wp-issues/sdclifton1.png)
 * and the site (page):
    [http://sdclifton.com/government/](http://sdclifton.com/government/)

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 *  [batrachoid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batrachoid/)
 * (@batrachoid)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-space-within-a-table/#post-1407404)
 * You can create a table (my first choice) or use a non-breaking space – ` `
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-space-within-a-table/#post-1407435)
 * Seriously…
 * Just plonk your data in a few elements, take this line for example.
 *     ```
       Name:                     S.D. Clifton Construction, Inc.
       ```
   
 * Rather then having loads of white-space, use a few elements.
 *     ```
       <span style="width:140px">Name:</span><span>S.D. Clifton Construction, Inc.</span>
       ```
   
 * ..used inline CSS for “simplicty” …
 * You already have all that data in a table though, there’s no need to add any 
   more.
 * For what it’s worth, you could be laying that all out without a table…
 *     ```
       <div style="clear:both">
         <div style="width:45%;float:left;padding:0 5px">
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
         </div>
         <div style="width:45%;float:left;padding:0 5px">
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
         </div>
         <div style="clear:left"></div>
         <div style="width:45%;float:left;padding:0 5px">
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
         </div>
         <div style="width:45%;float:left;padding:0 5px">
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
           <span style="width:140px">Field:</span><span>Data</span>
         </div>
         <div style="clear:left"></div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * ..or something to that degree (and probably with the CSS in it’s own file, example
   was just for illustration)..

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 * Last reply from: [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-space-within-a-table/#post-1407435)
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