Title: Simple CSS examples
Last modified: June 28, 2021

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# Simple CSS examples

 *  [doragondojo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doragondojo/)
 * (@doragondojo)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-css-examples/)
 * Hi as i am a newbie i upfront apologize for maybe a stupid question.
 * I love the Participants Database plugin and as far as installing and setting 
   up its going ok.
    But now i want to make the layout a bit nicer have the column
   sized accordingly so i understand i should be using CSS, but here i just dont
   have the knowledge. I also cant find any nice examples that could help me on 
   the way.
 * Is there anything i could use create a custom css setup using the
    Custom Plugin
   Stylesheet field in the plugin settings?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsimple-css-examples%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-css-examples/#post-14604843)
 * CSS presents a steep learning curve at first, it is a very flexible language 
   that will also require that you know HTML pretty well. I do have an article that
   can get you started:
 * [Simple CSS Techniques for WordPress](https://xnau.com/simple-css-techniques-for-wordpress-part-1/)
 * To specifically comment on your question: setting table column widths is tricky,
   it is always impossible to make columns wider, you must instead make other columns
   narrower, giving the columns that need more width the space to expand. You can
   set columns widths in a table by setting the width of the header cell.
 * The easiest solution to not enough width in columns is to display fewer of them.
 *  Thread Starter [doragondojo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doragondojo/)
 * (@doragondojo)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-css-examples/#post-14606237)
 * Thank you for the awnser ill be reading the article and seeing if i can scale
   down the amount of columns

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 * Last reply from: [doragondojo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doragondojo/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-css-examples/#post-14606237)
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