Title: Tables Within WP Posts?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Tables Within WP Posts?

 *  [vincel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincel/)
 * (@vincel)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/)
 * Greetings,
    I’ve got a couple of blogs, and I’ve been trying to put tables within
   my posts for quite some time. Finally, I figured out how to make it work, but
   the text is too close to the table when it is aligned left. I’ve tried all the
   HTML tags I know to put some space in there, but none work. Could you please 
   visit one of my sites ([http://abortion.capitolannex.com](http://abortion.capitolannex.com)),
   look at the first post there (it has a table) and tell me what I can do to get
   some space between the table and tex?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347374)
 * That url scares me… What you might try is looking at your style sheet and see
   about adding some margins or padding for your `<p>` tags.
 *  Thread Starter [vincel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincel/)
 * (@vincel)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347406)
 * The site is just news about court cases related to abortion. Sorry for the scare.
   However, I have no idea what you mean by adding margins for `<p>` tags, or how
   to do so.
 * You can also look at [http://www.capitolannex.com](http://www.capitolannex.com),
   as a couple tables are used there as well.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347413)
 * oh sorry – meant in your CSS style sheet.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347415)
 * Man, that site takes ages to download/display… mainly waiting for some stuff 
   from wondir.com or whatever. So many things on ONE page that basically you don’t
   see anything 🙂
 * OK, I don’t see any tables anywhere. Can you just give a link to that specific
   single post, so we don’t need to wait minutes (on high speed cable connection!)
   for the site?
 * And to your question: margins, padding and other similar things are added to 
   the stylesheet.
    e.g. `table { margin-right: 7px; border: solid 2px red; }
 *  Thread Starter [vincel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincel/)
 * (@vincel)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347572)
 * Here is a specific post: [http://abortion.capitolannex.com/2006/03/01/missouri-state-supreme-court-upholds-24-hour-waiting-period-on-abortions/](http://abortion.capitolannex.com/2006/03/01/missouri-state-supreme-court-upholds-24-hour-waiting-period-on-abortions/)
 * The little box is done with table tags.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347577)
 * For some mysterious reason you have there 2 tables (why?) but adding this to 
   your stylesheet should work:
    `table { margin-right: 7px; }
 * You can play with that 7px value as you wish.
 * One thing I don’t understand, though.
    If you ask for help and a solution is 
   offered WHY don’t you try it before posting back…?
 *  Thread Starter [vincel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincel/)
 * (@vincel)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347586)
 * Because this is 100% greek to me. Where in the sylesheet do I put this? just 
   anywhere?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tables-within-wp-posts/#post-347587)
 * look in your style sheet and see if you already have a “table” in there. If you
   do, add the one line. If you don’t, use what moshu suggested and add it any old
   place.

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