Title: Table editor issues
Last modified: July 28, 2022

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# Table editor issues

 *  Resolved [jessicaguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessicaguy/)
 * (@jessicaguy)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-editor-issues/)
 * I am having trouble adding rows to tables. I am fairly new to wordpress and editing
   existing pages that I did not create.
 * In the first instance, when I tried to click on ‘table’ in the visual editor,
   no drop down menu appeared. I tried this across several of these pages based 
   on the same templated. Eventually, somehow, but I am not sure how, I managed 
   to get that drop own to appear and I added a row. But this caused the who table
   to become much narrower and now I cannot widen it.
 * What I have tried:
    1. Clearing browser caches 2. Disabling and re-enabling visual
   editor 3. Highlighting table in the editor before clicking ‘table’ in an attempt
   to get a drop-down menu 4. Placing the cursor in a table cell and clicking ‘table’
   in an attempt to get a drop-down menu
 * When I hover on the table, a cursor appears as if I could widen columns with 
   it, but when I try it does not work.
 * What I need:
    1. To be able to add rows to tables (unsure why ‘table’ doesn’t
   offer drop-down options when I click it – is there a trick to this?) 2. When 
   I add a row, it doesn’t change the width of each column in the table, or if it
   does I can easily edit it back to the desired widths.
 * Any help appreciated.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ftable-editor-issues%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [SJW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitsey/)
 * (@whitsey)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-editor-issues/#post-15865695)
 * WordPress provides extremely limited support for tables other than inserting 
   them into the Editor.
    You will need to look at the code editor and edit the 
   table yourself with HTML or apply CSS to the table to get your desired result.
 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-editor-issues/#post-15865707)
 * Your table, somehow, has the following inline style: `style="width: 0%;height:
   1004px"`
 * Please remove both the fixed width and height.
 *  Thread Starter [jessicaguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessicaguy/)
 * (@jessicaguy)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-editor-issues/#post-15865721)
 * That helped me reformat the width of the table that went too narrow, thank you.
 * Still unsure how to add rows to tables, the issue of the ‘table’ button not showing
   a drop-down menu continues.
 *  Thread Starter [jessicaguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessicaguy/)
 * (@jessicaguy)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-editor-issues/#post-15865725)
 * I have worked out how to add rows from the text editor section. Will close thread
   now
 *  Thread Starter [jessicaguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessicaguy/)
 * (@jessicaguy)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-editor-issues/#post-15865726)
 * resolved

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [jessicaguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessicaguy/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-editor-issues/#post-15865726)
 * Status: resolved

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