Problem with table headers

Update: I just tried saving one of my tables and got the following error message at the top of the screen:

Saving failed: AJAX call failed: parsererror – SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character. Try again while holding down the “Shift” key.

Tried with several others and same thing.

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

The table header cells in your table are styled in the default styling of TablePress, because nowhere in your “Custom CSS” do you have code to change/influence them. Your code will only influence the cells in the table body.
To also change the table header cells, you’ll have to change all the lines similar to

.tablepress-id-112 tbody td {

to

.tablepress-id-112 thead th,
.tablepress-id-112 tbody td {

About that AJAX saving error: This most likely means that some other plugin is interfering with the save process, i.e. it’s modifying the data while TablePress wants to save the data.

To find the cause for this, I recommend to deactivate all other plugins, except TablePress, and check if everything works then. Then, re-activate the other plugins one by one and check each time, if everything still works. Once it breaks again, you have found the plugin that causes this.

Regards,
Tobias

Thanks for the info, guys.

I will work on CSS styling for my table headers, but I’m still concerned that the stylings that used to be there seem to suddenly be broken. I notice I’m not the only one getting AJAX saving errors, so I’m guessing WP 3.7.1 is conflicting with something somewhere on my site and giving me problems; if not Tablepress, likely something else.

I should note here, we’ve experienced other problems all of a sudden, as well — images not uploading to posts, post saves timing out or giving errors. SOMETHING is going on, and I would assume it was isolated to the server level except that a.) I don’t believe in coincidences with this kinda stuff and b.) others are reporting AJAX errors, as well…

I’ve tried deactivating most of my plugins and have not had any luck. The only ones I haven’t tried yet are ones I can’t really afford to take down — OpenHook and NivoSlider. So I suppose it’s down to Tablepress (I can’t afford to take down that one, either, though) or one of those two…

An update — I backed up my entire database and deactivated all plugins one by one and, finally, changed the theme itself. Seems it’s likely a theme issue — I’m using Thesis 1.8.5 — because after doing this, the AJAX error went away and so did all my other issues.

Curious if anyone else is using Thesis 1.8.5 and seeing the same AJAX issue? Or is it happening with other themes, too?

Hey guys…just wanted to let you know, there was, indeed, something going on between Thesis and Tablepress — it seems something in the theme files had become corrupt and was giving me trouble. I reinstalled Thesis (version 1.8.5) and now everything’s back to normal, including my table headers.

Thanks again for the input.

Hi,

thanks for further investigating this! Great to hear that you were able to fix the issue!
Yes, that really sounds like a theme issue then, or probably some corrupted file in the theme.

Best wishes,
Tobias