Title: Help with table styling?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Help with table styling?

 *  Resolved [Emi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenemi/)
 * (@jenemi)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-table-styling/)
 * More or less, I want it so each TD is its own separate thing so like… a page 
   with the table would look like this:
    [http://i.imgur.com/g44Kkl1.png](http://i.imgur.com/g44Kkl1.png)(
   The greyish portions of the background should actually be a translucent very 
   dark blue/black)
 * Right now I actually have it 5 across per row. Would I need to do a separate 
   table for each one for it to be flexible/have spaces? Or is there a way to code
   it to look something like that?
 * [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)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-table-styling/#post-7346592)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * While something like this could be possible with some rather complex CSS code(
   which I don’t have readily available at the moment), I recommend to not do this.
   
   In modern webdesign, tables should only be used for presenting actual tabular
   data, but they should not be used for design/styling purposes (like showing grid
   layouts). For this, you should consider modern approaches based on HTML containers
   like `<div>` and CSS code for styling and positioning.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Emi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenemi/)
 * (@jenemi)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-table-styling/#post-7346623)
 * It’s okay! Thank you for responding.
 * Thank you for letting me know. I’ll go back to playing around with divs then–
   the post/page itself just seemed to react very… weirdly to them (it handled tablepress
   much better) which is why I wanted to see if it was possible with Tablepress.
 * Hopefully I can get it to work properly with divs and CSS eventually.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-table-styling/#post-7346624)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-table-styling/#post-7346624)
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