Title: Column Widths
Last modified: December 18, 2017

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# Column Widths

 *  Resolved [mshane1152](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mshane1152/)
 * (@mshane1152)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-widths-18/)
 * Hello –
 * The last column is taking up a lot of width and the 4 columns to the left do 
   not have enough width. I can’t seem to find any settings to control column width
   when creating new columns. When I create a new column it does the same thing 
   and takes up a lot of width pushing everything to the left. Is there a way to
   control column width to make the content fit better?
 * Thanks!
 * Matt
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-widths-18/#post-9793816)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The reason for this behavior is that the last column contains much longer texts
   than the other cells, and that the browser tries to not let the rows get to high.
   
   This is not always ideal, as in this case, so that I recommend to change the 
   column widths manually, using “Custom CSS” code, for which you can find examples
   at [https://tablepress.org/faq/column-widths/](https://tablepress.org/faq/column-widths/)
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [mshane1152](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mshane1152/)
 * (@mshane1152)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-widths-18/#post-9797920)
 * Hi Tobias – thanks for your response. Are you saying the last column in our example
   has much longer texts or in general. Because the 4rd column in our example takes
   much longer text than the 5th (last column). I am just trying to understand if
   this behavior is due to our configuration OR the browser behavior in general 
   and needs to be manually fixed?
 * Thanks so much!
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-widths-18/#post-9799885)
 * Hi,
 * yes, that’s what I meant. The texts in column 5 are longer than those in the 
   other cells, which is why that columns seems to get a larger width. Changing 
   the widths manually using CSS code is the best approach, from what I can see.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-widths-18/#post-9799885)
 * Status: resolved