Title: Either collspan/rowspan or responsiveness?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Either collspan/rowspan or responsiveness?

 *  Resolved [eigil-skovgaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eigil-skovgaard/)
 * (@eigil-skovgaard)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/either-collspanrowspan-or-responsiveness/)
 * Hi Tobias,
 * [http://screencast.com/t/gquF6IBgcVlt](http://screencast.com/t/gquF6IBgcVlt)
 * A “book page” in one of my posts must hold 5 images arranged as illustrated in
   the sreencopy.
    So I have created this table, and to my best knowledge I can 
   only center the large image in relation to the group of four small images by 
   collapsing the 2 center cells in row 3 with a colspan. At the same time my “savior”
   related ot secure responsiveness is the horizontal scrolling bar, so I tagged
   the 3 lines necessary, saved the table, and soon after got the welknown error:“…
   unknown parameter …”. This issue was discussed 2 years ago here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tablepress-show-vertical-lines-borders](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tablepress-show-vertical-lines-borders)–
   so maybe a work-around has evolved since then? Of course I can divide the problem–
   a table with the 4 small images followed by the larger image separated, or I 
   can give up the scroll-bar, but neither of these “solutions” feel right. Best
   regards, Eigil Skovgaard
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/either-collspanrowspan-or-responsiveness/#post-5987551)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Unfortunately, the main cause for this problem is still not solved in the external
   DataTables JS library that TablePress uses for sorting, filtering, and that horizontal
   scrolling. It simply does not support tables with merged cells, and therefore
   raises that error messages. (As I’m not the developer of that JS library, this
   is out of my hands.)
 * There’s however a rather easy workaround. You can simply use a different type
   of horizontal scrolling. For that, please uncheck the “Use DataTables” checkbox
   again and then try the approach from [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-tables-scroll-only?replies=6#post-5511954](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-tables-scroll-only?replies=6#post-5511954)
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [eigil-skovgaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eigil-skovgaard/)
 * (@eigil-skovgaard)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/either-collspanrowspan-or-responsiveness/#post-5987802)
 * Hi Tobias,
 * Very good assistance.
 * Here is the total group of images (about 50% reduced in the browser): [http://screencast.com/t/53kUOQAS](http://screencast.com/t/53kUOQAS)
   
   And here is how the solution behaves when “squeezed” horizontally in IE-11 !!
   [http://screencast.com/t/8BTk0GfGaK3d](http://screencast.com/t/8BTk0GfGaK3d) 
   It behaves equally nice in Chrome and Safari (and Firefox I presume – my pc is
   flushed with ads every time I open Firefox these days). In Opera it is difficult
   to tell, as the limit for narrowing the browser horizontally is about 10 cm on
   my screen.
 * This is a break-through in my work, because the book I am digitizing at the moment
   is full of images arranged in the same way.
 * In an other thread you asked the client, why he didn’t use a common image managing
   program for this purpose (as an alternative to tables), and I looked for a image-
   program that would limit itself to represent the family-pictures in rows and 
   columns, dead stabile, as in my old paper albums. What I found was galleries 
   and galleries that insist on wrapping every small collection of images into an
   animated viewer.
 * Just to answer in advance.
 * Kind regards,
    Eigil
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/either-collspanrowspan-or-responsiveness/#post-5987813)
 * Hi,
 * yeah, laying out images in nice patters on the web, in responsive fashion, is
   still a bit ugly.
    In your case, a table is probably one of the better ways.
 * So, good to hear that this helped!
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/either-collspanrowspan-or-responsiveness/#post-5987813)
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