Title: Formatting queries
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Formatting queries

 *  Resolved [claireod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claireod/)
 * (@claireod)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-queries-1/)
 * Hi Tobias,
 * Firstly, thanks for developing this plugin – it’s practically perfect in every
   way!
 * I have some formatting questions for you (I must confess to being a complete 
   CSS novice here):
    1. How can I reduce the spacing between bullet points? 2. 
   How can I add a border to the top of the top-most cell 3. How can I centre text
   across cells which I have merged using the #colspan# command?
 * I’ve tried some of the solutions you mention in previous support requests but
   I can’t seem to get things sorted.
 * The page is [here](http://empact.sg/redefiningcommunitygiving/conference/programme/)
 * Thanks again for your help.
 * [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, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-queries-1/#post-5101904)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * 1. The problem here are the line breaks in the HTML code for the lists. Those
   will get converted to HTML `<br>` tags automatically, so that you must remove
   those line breaks between the `</li>` and `<li>` tags. Basically, that code should
   be written in one line of text (except for those line breaks in the text that
   you want to have, and for those line breaks that the browser adds automatically
   due to the width of the text field). Does that make sense?
 * 2. For that, please add this “Custom CSS”:
 *     ```
       .tablepress-id-2 tbody td {
         1px solid #dddddd !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * 3. The best approach should be to target the rows and columns, e.g.
 *     ```
       .tablepress-id-2 .row-3 td {
         text-align: center;
       }
       ```
   
 * or
 *     ```
       .tablepress-id-2 .row-3 .column-2 {
         text-align: center;
       }
       ```
   
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [claireod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claireod/)
 * (@claireod)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-queries-1/#post-5101914)
 * Those all worked perfectly, thank you!
 * I think the problem before was that I was trying to specify the row and the column
   for the centre align, but just specifying the row seems to have fixed it.
 * My final question is, how do I get my columns to be of equal width?
 * You’ll see in rows 9 and 10, and rows 12 and 13, the column widths are all different.
   Is there a way to fix these so the width is the same?
 * Thanks again.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-queries-1/#post-5101917)
 * Hi,
 * very nice! 🙂 Thanks for the confirmation!
 * For the widths, please try
 *     ```
       .tablepress-id-2 td[colspan="3"] {
           width: 280px;
       }
       .tablepress-id-2 td[colspan="2"] {
           width: 186px;
       }
       ```
   
 * 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!
 *  Thread Starter [claireod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claireod/)
 * (@claireod)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-queries-1/#post-5101919)
 * Fantastic, that’s fixed things. Thanks very much for all the speedy replies!
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-queries-1/#post-5101920)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-queries-1/#post-5101920)
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