Advanced Table Options and Some other features not working

Is anyone else having the problem of tables not centering?

The code says the table is centered. I even tried a div with center alignment and it still stubbornly stays at the left margin.

Anyone? Anyone know how to fix this?

Setting border and background color for tables is coming back in the next version (in a week or so).

Thanks for the update, Andrew. Have you had an issue with trying to center the table?

@kat123 this may be set (or overridden) in your theme’s style.css. Generally when a table is not 100% width you can center it by adding the aligncenter class.

If you want to center the text in all cells, select all of them, go to table => cell properties and center the text from there.

Thnx a lot Andrew ??

@andrew ozz – Thanks so much.

I don’t know much about CSS, which is why I’m trying to use a WYSIWYG editor ??

Is there a specific line of css I can add to the style sheet that will center all tables (not the content, but the table centered between the margins) so that I don’t have to edit the HTML when I’m adding the table itself?

I’ve been searching online and the only thing I found that actually worked was to add the following to the HTML:
<table style=”margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;” border=”0″ align=”center”>

I’m going to be having people who know even less HTML/CSS than I do using the system and I shudder to think what it would be like to teach them to find all the right places in the HTML and replace the code that’s there.

Also wondering if the TinyMCE plugin will ever center tables without touching the HTML? I know of other CMS systems that do – I was hoping WordPress would be one of them.

Hi everyone, do you know when advanced options for tables will go back in TinyMCE Advanced plugin?

@kat123 yep, these styles would center the tables. You may want to add them only for tables that are in post_content so if anything else in your theme uses tables, they won’t be affected.

To do that, have a look at the “wrapper” that is around posts (right-click and select “Inspect element”) on the front-end. It usually a class post or/and page, so the CSS would be:

.post table,
.page table {
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  border: 0;
}

This should work as long as there aren’t other (more specific) table styles.

@abcmoteur update to WP 4.0 and TinyMCE Advanced 4.1 ??

Thanks Andrew. That’s an even better solution.

Hi Andrew, if I update to WP 4.0 and TinyMCE Advanced 4.1, I’ll find advanced options for tables again?

Thanks.

@abcmoteur have a look at the TinyMCE demo. WordPress 4.0 + TinyMCE Advanced 4.1 include the same table plugin.

Andrew – The 4.1 is great!

If I download TinyMCE 4.1.5 will it work with WordPress 3.9X? I can’t update to 4.0 right now. I’m hoping the things that made 4.0 unusable with my theme are bugs and will be fixed in upcoming releases.

@kat123 TinyMCE 4.1.5 *might* work with WP 3.9 but is untested. It’s not a good idea to edit core files ??

It would probably be much simpler/better to get your theme fixed than to try and replace TinyMCE (use svn, install node.js, Grunt, build WordPress, etc.).

Thanks, Andrew. I’m looking forward to using the new features.

any way to color cells and rows?