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Hi Tobias, I figured out how to change both the background color and font color for a header row. But is it possible to change the background color of just ONE cell in a header row?

Here is the page I’m working on. I’d like to change the background color of the L-hand cell in the header.

Ehhhhh . . . wow, you’re right, I did misunderstand that (usually I slap my own forehead only ONCE a week!). No wonder I was seeing what I did after every table edit. Thank you!!!

Hi Tobias, I’m back because I’m trying to add borders to 2 tables on another site (different than the one with which you helped me earlier). Those tables are at:
https://www.jimhinckley.com/cibco/transactions and
https://www.jimhinckley.com/cibco/services

The table on transactions has an ID of 1, so I assume that all its CSS should include .tablepress-id-1. The other table has an ID of 2, so all its CSS should include .tablepress-id-2. Correct?

The strange thing is, each time I try to make one table’s CSS consistent for its table ID, it seems to change the CSS for the other table. That is, when I go thru table #1’s CSS, making sure that .tablepress-id ends with 1 (and then click Save), I switch over to the CSS for table #2 and find that all of its instances of .tablepress-id have changed to end with 1.

Very weird (to me, at least) . . . any suggestions?

What a kind fellow you are . . . and how foolish I feel for (once AGAIN) not noticing the obvious! Yes, changing that one character made all the difference. Thank you Tobias, you certainly embody the spirit of this forum:

Thank you, Tobias! Those CSS snippets certainly help. However, even after adding the first one you gave, only the first (L-hand) column in the table is the width I specified in this snippet:

.tablepress-id-1 .column-1 {
	width: 220px;
}
.tablepress-id-2 .column-2 {
	width: 260px;
}

The second column seems to be collapsing to the width of the longest line of text in it. For that reason I have inserted a string of periods (…………) to make the table the width I want it to be. But there must be a better way than this to get that table width (can you tell me what it is?):
https://www.themarketingquiz.com/retirement-plans/

Hi Tobias,

I have migrated from WP-Table-Reloaded to TablePress and it’s generally working fine for me. I’ve been able to change the column widths of this table but overall the table is still wider than I want it to be:
https://www.themarketingquiz.com/retirement-plans

How can I make the table’s width equal (or very close to) the sum of the two column widths?

Also, I would like to add a 1px border to the whole table and (if possible) give each column its own color instead of each row.

I searched the plugin’s FAQ and Documentation but have not found these answers . . . so thanks in advance for your help.

Oh, look what I just found . . . might be just what I need:
Thread about Fast Secure Contact Form

Deactivated the site’s plugins and then reactivated them one at a time. The problem was/is the Fast Secure Contact Form plugin. It’s ONLY that plugin that is causing all the problems mentioned in my earlier posts.

I’m guessing there must be a page on the codex about what steps I should take to delete/re-download/re-install this plugin. I want to be sure I do it right so I don’t mess up any other parts of my site. Can someone direct me to those instructions?

Thanks, kmessinger, those all sound like possible solutions, I’ll try them.

Just noticed that Firefox is giving me some error messages for WordPress that other browsers did not. I have no idea what the messages mean but maybe they will give someone (moderator or other WP-smart person) a clue about why this WP install is misbehaving, and how to solve it:
https://screencast.com/t/DBQ9oHvl8Id

FYI, when I use Firefox (which I just this morning upgraded to the latest version) to log into the site’s admin area, and go to Widgets, and try dragging widgets over to one of the ‘widget areas’ on the R-hand side, I get the quad arrow when I mouse over a widget’s title bar, but I can’t drag them over there. The title bar won’t float over to the right like it normally does.

I’m also finding other problems on the admin pages of this WP install, such as:

– On Dashboard and other admin pages, I can’t drag (re-arrange) the boxes, even though the quad-arrow appears when I mouse over the title bar of each box.

– On the Edit Post page for any post, in the Publish box, when I click the Edit link beside “Status: Published”, nothing happens.

– Just below that Edit link, when I click the one beside “Visibility: Public”, the page just scrolls down a little, but nothing else happens.

– Clicking the third Edit link in the Publish box (the one for “Published on”) also does nothing.

This is VERY frustrating. I don’t think it’s a problem with my hosting company, because I’m not having these problems when I log into the admin area of my other WP sites and blogs (which are hosted by the same provider as sykgroup). Please help!!

Thanks again. And right, not everyone will have Edwardian Script on their computer, so I’m using a couple of other fonts instead, one of which is Georgia, which I’ve read is common to nearly all PCs and Macs.

OK, hope I’m not pushing my luck here, but: at bottom of page, how can I change the size and font of the “Leave a Reply” text and the size of the box below it?

Correction: I should have said, “quotation marks around any font family names that consists of more than one word.”

Thank you! Looks like my mistake in this case was not putting the quotation marks around the font-family names. After doing that, I have the fonts I want in the page headlines.

Where exactly in the code would I place the } that you mentioned?

Also, how can I reduce the vertical space between the headline and the menu bar above it?