Title: Issue with Column Width
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Issue with Column Width

 *  Resolved [Taneya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taneya/)
 * (@taneya)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-column-width/)
 * Hello. I have a site I’m working with and we have an issue with the way the column
   widths are showing up. Please see [http://wp.me/P3dRYm-1cU](http://wp.me/P3dRYm-1cU).
   How do I edit the CSS so that columns 2 and 3 are not smushed like they are? 
   I would like the dates to be all on one line. Thanks!
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-column-width/#post-4105795)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question and sorry for the trouble!
 * Please try adding this “Custom CSS” to show those dates on one line:
 *     ```
       .tablepress-id-203 .column-2,
       .tablepress-id-203 .column-3 {
           white-space: nowrap;
       }
       ```
   
 * Additionally, please go to the “Edit” screen of the page and switch from the “
   Visual” to the “Text” editor. You should then see something like `<strong>` around
   the table Shortcode. Please remove these HTML tags, so that the Shortcode is 
   on it’s own line, without any HTML around it.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Taneya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taneya/)
 * (@taneya)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-column-width/#post-4105803)
 * Thanks – I will definitely do that. So, the fix is to do this for each table/
   page? Is there anyway to make it global? The site has more than 100 tables but
   I have to do this for each one, I will.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-column-width/#post-4105835)
 * Hi,
 * you could also remove the “id-123” part from the CSS code to make this apply 
   to all tables on all pages, i.e. use
 *     ```
       .tablepress .column-2,
       .tablepress .column-3 {
           white-space: nowrap;
       }
       ```
   
 * You will then however have to be careful if you have a table where you don’t 
   want this, as you then have to override this again.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Taneya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taneya/)
 * (@taneya)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-column-width/#post-4105837)
 * that is working perfectly! and yes, should we ever have a table where it is not
   needed, we can override it but I think all of our tables need it. Thanks so much!!
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-column-width/#post-4105890)
 * Hi,
 * great to hear that this helps! Thanks for the confirmation!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-column-width/#post-4105890)
 * Status: resolved