Title: setting tablewith by using arrows
Last modified: April 18, 2025

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# setting tablewith by using arrows

 *  Resolved [tjerk79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjerk79/)
 * (@tjerk79)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-tablewith-by-using-arrows/)
 * I see that you can code every table column to have a specific with but wen I 
   am in the backend and hoover over the table columns my mouse also changes in 
   <|> and I can change the column with right there. Is this also a way to change
   the column width? Because when I try so the collumns don’t get the width I want
   them to have.
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-tablewith-by-using-arrows/#post-18423697)
 * Hi!
 * Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble!
 * Changing the column widths on the “Edit” screen of the table with the mouse will
   only change them on that “Edit” screen, e.g. to have more space to enter the 
   data. This width change is however not saved and has no influence at all on the
   column width of the table when it’s shown on a page in the frontend. Changing
   the column widths there is best done with CSS code, see [https://tablepress.org/faq/column-widths/](https://tablepress.org/faq/column-widths/)
 * Best wishes,
   Tobias

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