Title: Cannot change column widths
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cannot change column widths

 *  Resolved [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/)
 * (@peter1)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-column-widths/)
 * Hi, I’ve been unable to make the table narrower on this page: [http://www.gunsafeadviser.com/barska-ax11556-biometric-fingerprint-safe-review/](http://www.gunsafeadviser.com/barska-ax11556-biometric-fingerprint-safe-review/)
 * I’ve read the faqs and tried the following in the options, none of which change
   anything at all
 * .tablepress-id-4 {
    width: 400px; }
 * .tablepress-id-N .column-2 {
    padding: 4px; }
 * .tablepress-id-N .column-2 {
    width: 100px; }
 * and a couple of others I found here.
 * How do I make the table much smaller? The columns are much wider than the content.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-column-widths/#post-5083965)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The reason for this is that your theme tells the table to extend to the full 
   width with a higher priority. To fix that, please try this “Custom CSS”:
 *     ```
       .entry .tablepress-id-4 {
         width: 400px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/)
 * (@peter1)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-column-widths/#post-5084027)
 * Beautiful Tobias, love your work.
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-column-widths/#post-5084045)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-column-widths/#post-5084045)
 * Status: resolved