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• • January 28, 2019 at 9:28 am #113975
    Bryana Anderle

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    I’m having a weird issue with one of my tables… In Indesign I have a two-column table evenly split between the two columns across the page, so they are the same size. However, in Mobi, when resizing the window, the right column is the only one that reflows/resizes, and the left column stays skinny. Looks really weird when they are supposed to be even. It also happens in Epub. Here’s a screenshot: https://jmp.sh/lku1DAM

    I have the same cell properties/styles assigned to both columns so I’m not sure why one would be different. Is there a setting or preference I’m missing?

    Thanks in advance!

  • January 28, 2019 at 9:43 am #113977
    Aaron Troia

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    I’m not sure if InDesign exports with column widths for tables, or if it does, it just guesses depending on the content? I dont know. I havent exported with their CSS in awhile so say for certain. I have found that in the HTML giving my tables specific column widths helps lock them to the widths I want. so for a two column I would do something like,

    <table>
         <colgroup>
              <col style="width:50%"/>
              <col style="width:50%"/>
         </colgroup>
       ...
    

    I actually have a number of these column widths set as styles within my custom stylesheet so I can customize them depending on how many columns and content. I’m not sure if table styles allow for setting custom column widths within InDesign so it might have to be done after export.

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