My tables couldn't be shown on my post.

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 12:49 am

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  aleone89 · Staff · Nov 10, 2021 at 9:13 am

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  Hello there,

  Happy to help you with this.

  We don’t provide telephone support, but I’ll happily help via this support thread.

  What is the name of the post where you’re facing problems exactly?

  Thank you.

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 4:14 pm

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  Hi,
  The post name is “Five Environmental Portraits of Daniel Ye”
  This is the link: VIEW POST

  https://scccmultimedia.wordpress.com/2021/11/09/five-environmental-portraits-of-daniel-ye-2/(opens in a new tab)

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Nov 10, 2021 at 5:52 pm

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  Hi there,

  Try aligning all the tables center – I tested it out on your post without saving and it appears to show all tables in the preview:

  

  Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

  Thanks!

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 6:13 pm

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  Hi, I tried that but it didn’t work on my side. The preview button didn’t work, either. When I click it, it didn’t show post view, but it only showed some choices of “desktop”, “mobile”, “tablets”, and “in new tab”, that is it. So weird.

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  staartmees · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 6:43 pm

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  Of course, you must click one if those choices to see a preview .

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 10, 2021 at 6:46 pm

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  Yep, those are your preview choices, specifically you can see how the post will look on desktop computers, mobile devices, and tablets.

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 6:54 pm

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  yes, the preview button works now.

  But when I aligned all tables center, they appeared when I clicked preview button, but some texts looked odd and not in a good line. and when I edited them in a good look, they disappeared again.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 10, 2021 at 6:55 pm

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  Would you please use https://snipboard.io/ to share a screenshot of what you’re seeing?

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 7:00 pm

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  How to do that? It is difficult for me to do it. Can I send you a picture?

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 7:08 pm

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 7:13 pm

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  I mean the texts in tables are not in good order, but I couldn’t edited them, because they would disappear again if I edited them and it seemed that they were not easy to be edited.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 10, 2021 at 7:14 pm

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  Ah yes, that’s because essentially the table is too large for the content width in this theme, so it has to add some line breaks so it doesn’t just flow off the side of the page.

  Try making the left column a bit wider, and give it more room by making the center and right columns narrower.

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 10, 2021 at 7:17 pm

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  But there are not columns lines to disappear. I cannot see the columns lines.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Nov 10, 2021 at 8:09 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can play around with the first column a bit by adding text or pressing the space bar to make the column wider.

  However, the table block doesn’t truly have an option to manually adjust column widths. It will either adjust column widths automatically based on the content you add to the different columns, or you can set it fixed width, in which case all columns should have the same width.

  More on the Table Block here:

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/table-block/

  You would need access to the CSS feature via the Premium or Business Plans to manually adjust the tables or the content width of the theme.

  http://wordpress.com/plans

  If you are interested in purchasing the Premium Plan, you’ll be eligible to receive support via live chat and our staff would be happy to further assist you with this.

  Hope this helps.

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  hao66 · Member · Nov 11, 2021 at 2:09 pm

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  Hi,
  I tried to press the space button to move the first column right to make it wider. But it stilled looked the same after I updated it. The texts in the first column are crowded and width was very small.

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Nov 11, 2021 at 3:53 pm

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  A space won’t add more width to your table. However, the issue will remain that you’re trying to fit a lot of content into a narrow content width in your theme. Additionally, that content will display differently based on the viewport of the device viewing the content and other things like text zoom, default browser text size, etc. It’s not like laying out a table in Word – the table will look different to everyone based on their device settings.

  For example, this is what the table looks like for me: https://d.pr/i/7TL0nO

  …which is less cramped than the example you posted above. Likely due to the difference in default browser text sizes.

  You could try:

  1. Instead of using a table, write out each row’s item as a header (for the things to consider and question) and a paragraph for the response.

  2. Explore using a different theme that has a much wider content width that would allow you to post a table with a little more breathing room in each cell. You can see options for other themes here: https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/two-columns

  Otherwise, you might want to try using a smaller font or other adjustments to give your table cells more space in your post.