Unable to set cell width

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

The reason why this is not working here is that your table is already too wide for the screen to fit. The browser therefore doesn’t really want to make that column even wider. However, you can force that, by using a slightly extended version of your code:

.tablepress-id-99 .column-7 {
  width: 600px;
  min-width: 600px;
}

You might then also want to look into using an approach to make the table responsive on small screens. See https://tablepress.org/extensions/responsive-tables/ for some ideas.

Regards,
Tobias

Thank you so much. It worked!
I will also explore the different options available with the resposive tables plugin.
All the best.

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!

Best wishes,
Tobias
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By the way, I tried the scroll function with the “responsive tables” add-on. I wanted to implement the “scroll” function, but it does not seem compatible with the “fixed header” function. With “fixed header” , only the table cells move, so they lose their alignment with the header cells. So, I will leave it as an extra-wide table that moves off the page with “fixed header” only, like in https://www.naturalmattressfinder.com/latex-mattresses-in-canada/ .

I am afraid that if I remove the “fixed header” on the large tables, and the visitor is looking at the page on a small screen, he will no longer know what he is looking at, since the header is no longer in view to identify the column.

All the best.

Hi,

you are right, the “Fixed Header” feature is currently not compatible with horizontal scrolling. ??

However, good news ahead: TablePress 2.0, coming before Christmas, will feature this as part of a premium plan, so that this will then be possible ??

Regards,
Tobias