Title: [Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] Admin Interface – smaller width for columns
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] Admin Interface – smaller width for columns

 *  Resolved [Llasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llasse/)
 * (@llasse)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-admin-interface-smaller-width-for-columns/)
 * Hey there,
    I want to change the column-width of columns which can be seen when
   editing the table in the admin-interface. Its current size is around 190px which–
   if you have more than 8 columns – is a pain to edit, as you always have to scroll
   right and left (even though I only need 5px-wide columns, as I only handle numbers)
 * I understand that you can edit the styles in the plugin-dir\wptable..\admin\admin-
   style.css
 * But changes here won’t really work – any ideas how I can change the width of 
   the columns, so they get much smaller and easier to overview?
 * Thanks in advance – awesome plugin!

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 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-admin-interface-smaller-width-for-columns/#post-1272373)
 * Hi,
 * I understand your need for this, but currently is not so easy to change.
    Also,
   I’ll be shipping the next version 1.5 with a new “Edit table” layout, which again
   might break those changes. I would therefore ask you to wait for version 1.5 
   and then ask again, if there’s still a need for this. Besides changing the 190px
   to a smaller value there might also be some width=100% somewhere on a table element
   which overwrites your changes again.
 * Thanks for your understanding!
    Regards, Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Llasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llasse/)
 * (@llasse)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-admin-interface-smaller-width-for-columns/#post-1272462)
 * But as this seems to be only a CSS-issue, there might be a relatively easy fix–
   I just cannot make out why my changes (deleting the 190px/changing it) don’t 
   show any effects – especially as the width:100% parameter must (even if it overrides
   something) refer to a containing element – which must have the size…
 * Am I working on the correct CSS file?
 * (Sorry that I’m somehwat unpatient, but there is someone else on the user side,
   who is not really understanding “why can you fix the design on every page of 
   the entire site with two clicks and not make this table look smaller?” hehe..
 * Any more comments on the CSS-file?
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-admin-interface-smaller-width-for-columns/#post-1272475)
 * Hi,
 * yes, it is only a CSS issue, but the designed behavior is to have the cells 190px
   wide.
    But I had a look into it and here is a way to change it to smaller widths.
   Be aware though that this might change in the next version (actually it should
   be easier then).
 * The plugin uses either admin-style.css or admin-style.dev.css (in the admin subfolder),
   depending on your WPs settings regarding script compression an concatenation.
   
   You can check the source of the HTML to check which one is used. Then you need
   to edit that file like this:
 * Search for the selector `#table_contents textarea` and change `width:100%;` to
   something smaller like `width:50px;`. Remove the `min-width:190px;`.
 * Search the selector `#table_contents .hide-columns .check-column` and remove `
   width:auto;`.
 * Search the selector `#table_contents td` and remove `white-space:nowrap;`.
 * I found these changes using Firebug and they successfully change the width for
   the current version 1.4.2a.
 * Hope this helps 🙂
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Llasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llasse/)
 * (@llasse)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-admin-interface-smaller-width-for-columns/#post-1272488)
 * Yes, this is really really nice support.. thanks a lot!

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