How do I get tables to display properly?

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  dmcnic · Member · Jun 18, 2011 at 6:22 am

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  I use tables frequently in my blog and they would be easier to read if the border was visible. It looks great in the visual editor but the final product doesn’t display the border lines. Is there a work around for this? Thanks for your time.

  –David
  Blog url: http://dmcnic.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 18, 2011 at 6:31 pm

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  Unfortunately, the borders are being stripped out by your theme’s stylesheet.

  In this case, the only way around it would be to switch themes (you can preview them in the Appearance section to see how they handle tables) or set your own table CSS rules with a Custom Design upgrade: http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

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  dmcnic · Member · Jun 19, 2011 at 4:28 pm

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  Thanks for the suggestion. I upgraded my account by adding Custom Design. I am quite pleased! Not only do the borders show, but I can customize the tables in my blog without adding a large amount of html code. This will save me quite a bit of effort. Now if I can just figure out how to align the text to the right of each cell.

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  zefontainhas · Member · Jun 19, 2011 at 11:53 pm

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  Did you try

  
table tr td.right{
text-align: right;
}


  in your CSS?

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  dmcnic · Member · Jun 20, 2011 at 12:32 am

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  Not exactly, but here is what I currently have:

  
td {
border:solid black 1px;
text-align:right;
font-family:courier;
font-size:12pt;
}


  I have eliminating everything except for the text-align line without success. That means I have conflicting css code somewhere else, right?

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  zefontainhas · Member · Jun 20, 2011 at 12:48 am

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  Correct. Try
  
td {
border:solid black 1px;
text-align:right !important;
font-family:courier;
font-size:12pt;
}

  to see if that works (note the added !important)

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  dmcnic · Member · Jun 20, 2011 at 1:10 am

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  Okay, that worked. I have not seen the !important documented anywhere. Thanks for the assist!

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  zefontainhas · Member · Jun 20, 2011 at 1:22 am

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  Great!