Column width on PDF and responsive

  • Resolved hazelholmes

    (@hazelholmes)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, We just moved from Supsystic to your plugin. Using Divi as a theme. I like a lot of things about your plugin, but am having trouble with column widths. The first issue is that the table displays great on the page for desktop but the table doesn’t look very good on mobile. Any ideas for making this look better?
    The second issue is a print/pdf issue. Normally we use the printfriendly plugin to get good results for printing from our webpages (printfriendly is enabled when you click the “print” or “PDF” button at top right of the page: https://help.broadstripes.com/release-notes/) With Tablepress however, the 3rd column goes off the page and the 4th column is not visible at all when you click the PDF printfriendly button. Your PDF tool is doing the same thing (although your print tool is formatting column fine). Does any of this have to do with the fact that we are using the free version? Or do we need to use more CSS? Willing to upgrade if it matters. Also willing to use only your print/pdf tool instead of printfriendly if they can both show all columns. Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    Indeed, the TablePress Pro version might be helpful for you, with (at least) three features:

    • The “Responsive Tables” modules can make your tables look better on small screens (like phones).
    • The “Buttons” module can be integrated much easier than the Extension that you are using now.
    • You could automate the creation of those “2023 January” etc. rows (from the data in the fourth column) with the “Row Grouping” module.

    That problem with the PDF files now showing all columns is coming from the white space characters in your third column. Those are “non-breaking spaces” instead of normal spaces. That’s why the PDF is showing all of them in one line of text so that the column extends to the right.

    Where are these texts coming from? My feeling is that this happen from copy/paste somehow? A quick solution would be to use search/replace in a text editor to replace the “non-breaking spaces” with normal spaces.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter hazelholmes

    (@hazelholmes)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Very helpful. Getting rid of the non-breaking spaces fixed the problem! Thank you.

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    great! That’s good to hear. As you have a Premium license, let’s handle the remaining questions via email then.

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

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