formatting tables

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  jvoigt07 · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  I am having trouble with the formatting of a table on my wordpress.com site. I cannot make the table width fixed and as I add content the right side is getting pushed off of the page: http://voigtclassroom.wordpress.com/classes/ap-literature/ap-lit-calendar/

  I appreciate any help.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 7:39 pm

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  For creating HTML tables in free hosted WordPress.com blogs see http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/table-coding-for-wordpress-com-users/

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  jvoigt07 · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 7:55 pm

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  Thanks, timethief, I appreciate your sending this. Unfortunately, I’ve read through this before and the “style” attributes are not responding. I assume it is to do with the theme, but I don’t currently have access to the theme css.

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  justpi · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 11:50 pm

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  As I explain in the article timethief linked to, the style attribute is the correct way to code things, and it works, except of course when physically impossible: a table can’t be narrower than its contents!

  First, you’ve got several typing mistakes that prevent line breaks. For example, each one of these behaves like a single word, because of the missing spaces:
  Stevens)Homework:
  Read/Annotate”Lord
  Discuss:Beowulf
  Same goes for this, because of the (useless) underscore:
  Beowulf_Assignment

  Second, the no-sidebar template on 2011 doesn’t make the content area any wider, it only makes it centered.

  In short, there’s no way to make your tables fit, except if you decrease the font size a lot. I suggest you start by switching to a different theme: a wide theme with no sidebar, or a wide theme that supports a real full-width template for static pages.