Title: table widths
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# table widths

 *  [thomaspayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomaspayne/)
 * (@thomaspayne)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths/)
 * hello.
 * wondered if anyone could provide direction on how to set widths of individual
   cells in a table. basically have used a row to create a horizontal scroll effect
   and need to set the width of the first cell in the table to 400px.
 * thought it would just be <td width=”400″> but doesn’t seem to work.
 * the page in question is:
 * [http://thomasjwpayne.com/dbuckingham/?page_id=11](http://thomasjwpayne.com/dbuckingham/?page_id=11)

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 *  [MrGamma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrgamma/)
 * (@mrgamma)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths/#post-1763208)
 * I couldn’t find width=”400″ in your code.
 * style=”width: 400px !important;”
 * I found that though. Sometimes the width the table will effect how wide a cell
   can be.
 * Maybe if you set the table to width=”100%” and then make sure you have at least
   two TD cells, so that one can compensate for the remaining width of the table.
 *  Thread Starter [thomaspayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomaspayne/)
 * (@thomaspayne)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths/#post-1763218)
 * yeah sorry.
 * was just checking if inline css would affect it. didnt seem to do much.
 * yeah there will always be multiple td cells but not sure what you’ve recommended
   would work, unless i’ve misunderstood.
 * basically need the opening cell to always stay fixed at 400px.
 * anybody?
 *  [MrGamma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrgamma/)
 * (@mrgamma)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths/#post-1763219)
 * table-layout:fixed
 *  Thread Starter [thomaspayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomaspayne/)
 * (@thomaspayne)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths/#post-1763222)
 * yeah think i see what you mean now. works for the text although not for the images
   which end up on top of each other, even with all td’s set to width=100%.
 * imagined there were be some method using css to affect only the first column 
   so the remaining columns can be flexible depending on image width?
 *  [MrGamma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrgamma/)
 * (@mrgamma)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-widths/#post-1763228)
 * Hello Thomas,
 * All the TDS can only equal the 100% in total.
 * If there are three TDs they need to equal 33% each. That might be causing some
   problems.
 * A bad hack but should work fine on the newer computers is to set image widths
   to 100% so they scale to fit the width of the TDs.
 * Tables will not clip images from what I remember. So in the worst case, you might
   need to wrap an image in a div and then set the width of the div to what you 
   need it to be and then add an overflow:hidden to clip the image.
 * Is that what you mean?

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