Title: Table ID suddenly changed itself
Last modified: October 25, 2017

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# Table ID suddenly changed itself

 *  Resolved [rayorlana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayorlana/)
 * (@rayorlana)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-id-suddenly-changed-itself/)
 * Hi, I’m currently developing my website with a lot of tables in a multisite. 
   I am using the table ids in an ‘a href’ to link to the tables. Earlier, all my
   table id are having the id such as tablepress-xx-no-3 . I assumed the -no-3 was
   because the blog id where I created the table is 3. So i referenced tablepress-
   xx-no-3 in my links. But then somehow all the -no-3 dissapeared from the tables.
   What is causing this. I already have hundreds of tables created with links in
   it and it would be time consuming to change them again.
 * Thanks,
    Raymond
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [rayorlana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayorlana/).
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [rayorlana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayorlana/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-id-suddenly-changed-itself/#post-9620312)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * That `-no-3` part of the HTML ID of the table HTML code actually has a different
   source: As the HTML ID has to be unique on the page, TablePress adds `-no-2`,`-
   no-3`, etc. whenever data from the same table is shown on the page. This for 
   example allows to add the same Shortcode to the page multiple times, but e.g.
   with different parameters and settings.
 * So, in your case, as you got the `-no-3` in the HTML IDs, you either have the
   Shortcode for the same table ID (not HTML ID!) on the page at least three times,
   or there’s something on your site that – in the background – renders the page(
   and thus parses the Shortcodes) but doesn’t show the resulting content. I have
   seen this for example from SEO plugins.
 * Your best chance now probably is to export those tables with the links to CSV
   files and then use search/replace to remove the extra `-no-3` part in a text 
   editor.
    You could also use a plugin filter hook to change the ID back to that
   with the `-no-3`, but I wouldn’t really recommend that.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [rayorlana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayorlana/)
 * (@rayorlana)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-id-suddenly-changed-itself/#post-9625518)
 * Thanks for the response Tobias!
 * I’m still not sure what’s causing it but I decided to remove the -no-3 with Search/
   Replace Script.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-id-suddenly-changed-itself/#post-9625680)
 * Hi,
 * yeah, it’s kind of hard to find out what caused this, as there are several plugins
   that can cause this, if they do things wrong.
    Good to hear that everything is
   working now!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-id-suddenly-changed-itself/#post-9625680)
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