Title: Responsive problem with colspan
Last modified: October 6, 2020

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# Responsive problem with colspan

 *  Resolved [raffacake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raffacake/)
 * (@raffacake)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-problem-with-colspan/)
 * Hi there – thanks for the great plugin Tobias!
 * Just a quick bug report… it seems that the responsive extension throws a jQuery
   error on scrolling tables that have the #colspan# tag in them, which results 
   in the responsive functionality not working.
 * Not sure if there’s a way to fix this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fresponsive-problem-with-colspan%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-problem-with-colspan/#post-13502146)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The reason for this is that the jQuery library that TablePress uses does not 
   support tables with merged/combined cells. Thus, you can not use it with tables
   that have `#colspan#`. As an alternative, you could use the `scroll` mode of 
   the TablePress Extension from [https://tablepress.org/extensions/responsive-tables/](https://tablepress.org/extensions/responsive-tables/)
   which can add horizontal scrolling without using JavaScript.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [raffacake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raffacake/)
 * (@raffacake)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-problem-with-colspan/#post-13507246)
 * Thanks for the reply Tobias… I _thought_ that’s what I had done. But I’ve just
   realised I was using the ‘collapse’ option for the Extension rather than the ‘
   scroll’ option! My bad!
 * Changed it to scroll and the Javascript error has disappeared.
 * Thanks for responding so quickly though!
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-problem-with-colspan/#post-13507342)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/#new-post)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-problem-with-colspan/#post-13507342)
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