Title: Table header CSS background colour
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Table header CSS background colour

 *  Resolved [ilew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilew/)
 * (@ilew)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-header-css-background-colour/)
 * Hi. First, thanks for a great plugin.
 * For some reason, after applying the CSS you show in your FAQ, to edit the background
   colour of the table header, it has no effect.
 * Here’s an example
    [http://geekymedics.com/2015/02/05/dementia-types-differentials/](http://geekymedics.com/2015/02/05/dementia-types-differentials/)
 * Any idea what’s going wrong?
 * Cheers
 * Lewis
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-header-css-background-colour/#post-5755247)
 * Hi Lewis,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The reason for this is that your theme is also setting a background color on 
   the header row of tables, so that we’ll have to be more specific in our “Custom
   CSS”. Please try again with
 *     ```
       .entry-content .tablepress thead th,
       .entry-content .tablepress tfoot th {
       	background-color: #ed9337;
       }
       ```
   
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [ilew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilew/)
 * (@ilew)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-header-css-background-colour/#post-5755274)
 * Tobias, you are a legend.
 * Thank you so much.
 * *Goes and rates Plugin 5 stars *
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-header-css-background-colour/#post-5755310)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
    And thanks
   for the rating, I really appreciate it!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-header-css-background-colour/#post-5755310)
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