Title: Table Width
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Table Width

 *  Resolved [gbsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gbsu/)
 * (@gbsu)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-width-11/)
 * I have uploaded an xlsx file in tablepress, and now my column informaiton is 
   running outside the column. Can you advise a remedy here. What is the normal 
   width of columns? Will adjusting the width of the column help here.
 * [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, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-width-11/#post-6015621)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens,
   so that I can take a direct look? Thanks!
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [gbsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gbsu/)
 * (@gbsu)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-width-11/#post-6015682)
 * Tobias,
 * Thanks for looking into this for me. Here is the link [](http://www.bigmpac.com/rsi)
 *  Thread Starter [gbsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gbsu/)
 * (@gbsu)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-width-11/#post-6015683)
 * Here is the link, [http://www.bigmpac.com/rsi/](http://www.bigmpac.com/rsi/)
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-width-11/#post-6015684)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for that! You are probably referring to the URLs in the last column of
   that table that expand beyond the table, right?
 * This seems to be caused by some CSS in your theme. To override this, please try
   adding this to the “Custom CSS” textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen of TablePress:
 *     ```
       #content-area .tablepress td {
           max-width: none;
       }
       ```
   
 * This should fix that overflow, but it will also change the column widths, as 
   the last column will not become wider (as the links in the last column don’t 
   offer many chances for automatic word-wrapping (which can only take place at 
   a space or hyphen).
    You might therefore consider changing the link text for 
   all those links to a common link text (like “Website”) instead of the actual 
   URL.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [gbsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gbsu/)
 * (@gbsu)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-width-11/#post-6015706)
 * Tobias,
 * I added the code to the custom CSS textarea as instructed and it works for me,
   thanks greatly for your help here. This code resolved my issue.
 * Your final suggestion of changing the link text for all those links to a common
   link text (like “Website”) was another direction I may decide to use in another
   table in the future therefore, if I may inquire, could you advise how I would
   go about using a common link like “Website” instead of the actual URL.
 * That was my original approach here, but I decided against that after I could 
   not figure out a simple way of converting over 600 urls to a common link text
   without manually entering code for each 600 urls.
 * Thanks for this great plugin!!!
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-width-11/#post-6015708)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
 * For those links with the “Website” text: As your table is coming from an Excel
   file, the best way probably is to use an Excel macro to automatically generate
   the HTML code for the links, with the macro approach as mentioned in your other
   thread at [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excel-xlsx-file?replies=2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excel-xlsx-file?replies=2)
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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