Title: Table widths
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Table widths

 *  Resolved [ishen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ishen/)
 * (@ishen)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths-1/)
 * I just tried this plugin and it works great on the content but I cannot seem 
   to get the custom CSS in the Plugin Option to change the width. I would like 
   to have all the columns the same width and fit them to the page. It seems to 
   be completely ignoring the custom CSS (I followed the directions in the documenation).
 * Here’s the page: [http://www.funmothersclub.org/events/preschool-faire/2014-preschool-faire-directory/](http://www.funmothersclub.org/events/preschool-faire/2014-preschool-faire-directory/)
 * I would appreciate any help on this matter!
 * [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)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths-1/#post-4774126)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The problem is not really the CSS, but the data that you have in your table: 
   You have very long URLs in there, and those are treated as one very long word
   by the web browser (because they mostly don’t contain spaces or hyphens, which
   could be used as a place for word-wrapping). These long URLs then force the last
   column to be very wide, and due to how tables work, that required minimum width
   will always “overwrite” your desired width from the CSS.
    To make this table 
   fit on the page, you’ll therefore have to change those links somehow. One idea
   would be to give all of them the same link text, like “Website”, instead of the
   actual URL.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [ishen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ishen/)
 * (@ishen)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths-1/#post-4774146)
 * What about the column with the phone numbers? I can’t seem to change that either?
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths-1/#post-4774195)
 * Hi,
 * it was probably a similar thing. The column was forced to be smaller by the wide
   URL column.
    But right now, it looks like you found a nice way to make the table
   fit, right? 🙂
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths-1/#post-4774195)
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