Large Space Between Cells (Columns)

Hi,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

This is caused by a small CSS conflict. To fix this, please add this to the “Custom CSS” textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen of TablePress:

.tablepress th,
.tablepress td {
    width: auto;
}

instead of what you have now.

Regards,
Tobias

Hmm. I was really hopeful, but that didn’t seem to fix the issue. Any other ideas?

Hi,

ok, another try:

.tablepress,
.tablepress th,
.tablepress td {
    width: auto;
}

Regards,
Tobias

Sorry. I was away yesterday and didn’t get to try the change until today.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work, either. Any other thoughts?

Hi,

then I’m not really sure what the issue is. Can you maybe post a screenshot of how the tables look like for you and what’s wrong?

Regards,
Tobias

There seems to be something odd going on with the first column. When I made the table three columns instead of two, the second two columns spaced fine, but the first still maintained a large gap. (https://stacitroilo.com/cathedral-lake-series/).

Not sure how to include a screenshot. I don’t see a way to include an attachment, and pasting doesn’t seem to give me a live link. The problem can be seen on this screen: https://stacitroilo.com/cathedral-lake-series or try this URL to view the graphic representation of it: https://stacitroilo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-4.20.52-PM.png

Screen Shot 2016-06-02 at 4.20.52 PM.png

Hi,

unfortunately, your link to the screenshot did not work ?? Is that URL correct? Can you otherwise maybe upload it to https://imgur.com/ ?

Now, from what I can see, the column widths are now fine, i.e. the CSS from above is working. If you want the columns to be equal, you could not try adding additional CSS, e.g. with https://tablepress.org/faq/column-widths/

Regards,
Tobias

Funny thing, Tobias. I had Apple Support run a network diagnostic on my system this evening and clean it up, and now the tables are working (other than the fact that I need to put hard breaks in the captions so they don’t run too far past the book covers). But for some reason, now the graphic link doesn’t work, which it did earlier. But I guess it doesn’t matter now. For the time being, I’m going to consider this problem resolved. If it happens again, I’ll write back.

Thanks for your assistance. Apparently it wasn’t the plugin. It was a malware issue on my end doing all sorts of funky things to many of my programs and displays. I didn’t realize it could impact WordPress that way. I didn’t even realize I had malware on my system. Sorry about that.

Staci

Hi Staci,

wow, that’s a surprise. Good to hear that the support was able to assist with this and clean it!
The malware probably altered some network settings which could have affected how files were loaded. That’s what might have caused the wrong layout for you.

Best wishes,
Tobias