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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Table borders and column widths](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-borders-and-column-widths/)
 *  Thread Starter [boofwei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boofwei/)
 * (@boofwei)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-borders-and-column-widths/#post-1189298)
 * Thanks for your fast response! I couldn’t find the extra <tr>, but I copied your
   code in. I still have the problem. I’ll check with the other sources you mention,
   thanks.
 * But what I’m trying to do is make a table with four columns with a fixed with.
   Without borders, I can control cellspacing and cellpadding. But then, of course,
   I have a table with content floating around in free space.
    However, as soon 
   as I put borders in, such as with `rules="all"`, the column widths shrink to 
   fit on whatever the largest entry is in the table. So I have borders around the
   cells, but the content is jammed up against the sides of the cells. No matter
   what value I set for cellspacing or cellpadding, the column width stays minimalized.
 * … hmm, I normally work on a Mac (Firefox), but I’m sitting on a PC at the moment,
   and I notice here, that the cellspacing and cellpadding work, and rules doesn’t.
 * There is definitely some kind of conflict between cellspacing and cellpadding
   with rules.

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