Changes I have made to my tables are not saving

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Can you please explain what “none of them will ‘safe'” means here? Are you seeing any error messages?

Regards,
Tobias

I mean that none of the changes I make to the tables will “save” (NOT “safe”). Basically, I add a column/delete a column, click on the “SAVE button” on the top and/or bottom of the table screen/plugin and nothing happens. I simply want the changes to take affect after I make them. Does that make sense? Thanks.

Hi,

ah, that safe/save typo again, sorry ?? I shouldn’t watch baseball while replying to forum posts ??

Thanks for the clarification. If nothing happens after clicking the “Save changes” button (not even a spinner appearing), there’s likely something interfering with the JavaScript code. If possible, I’d like to take a direct look at this on your site. Could you therefore please create a temporary admin account for me and send me the details via email (the address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”)? That way, I can investigate this directly. Thanks!

Regards,
Tobias

Thanks for your patience regarding this reply. I continued to experiment with making changes and then clicked “save.” And now it’s working! =0) If it happens again, I’ll let you know and provide a temporary admin account. However, I have a couple of more questions (again, I’m new to this plugin)….

I added a “header” and clicked on “add 1 row.” However, I did not “click” to add any columns, as I want the wording in the header to spread throughout the entire length of the page (horizontal). Am I overlooking something? Basically, how can I add just one table with no columns? The final question – I also do not want the header to be highlighted blue (just white like the rest of the page). How can I do this?

Thanks soooo much for all of your help!

Hi,

good to hear that saving is working now!

About the other question: I don’t really understand that. How shall a table with no columns look like? A table always has to have a least one column.
Or do you mean that the header shall be one column, but the body part of the table shall have multiple columns? In that case, you’ll want to use the “colspan” button below the table input fields, which can be used to merge the cells in a row.
For changing the background color of the header row, you can use the CSS code from https://tablepress.org/faq/change-background-color-table-head-row/

Regards,
Tobias

Sorry for the confusion and yes, you are correct: the header needs to have one column and the table shall have multiple columns. I’ll try the “colspan” button and let you know how it works. And thanks for the background link. You’ve been a lot of help!

I just added the following code to Custom CSS/Plugin Options per your recommendation:

.tablepress thead th,
.tablepress tfoot th {
background-color: #ffffff;
}

.tablepress thead .sorting_asc,
.tablepress thead .sorting_desc,
.tablepress thead .sorting:hover {
background-color: #ffffff;
}

However, the background (for the entire page) is still grey and I want it to be white. I don’t want to change just the header color or the footer color. I want the background of all of the “wording” to be white. Here’s the link to the page I’m referring to:

https://improvedconstructionmethods.com/below-ground/locators/magnetic-locators/fisher-magnetic-locators/

What’s next?

One more thing…I also do not want spacing between the bullet points displayed on the page. I have the correct html coding, so I’m not sure why it’s doing this…

Hi,

so, you don’t actually want to change the background color of the table, but of the entire page?
That will have to be done in the theme (which — and that makes things slightly more complicated — uses background images and not just colors).
You could however just make the table background white with this:

.tablepress tbody td {
  background-color:#ffffff;
}

You might then also want to uncheck the “Row Highlighting” checkbox on the table’s “Edit” screen.

For the spacing between the bullet points: Your HTML code is indeed correct, the problem however is that line breaks in the table cells get converted to HTML <br /> tags automatically, and those add that space.
To change that, you would either have to remove all unwanted line breaks in the code, or turn off that automatic conversion by adding a parameter to the Shortcode:

[table id=2 convert_line_breaks=false /]

Regards,
Tobias