Robert

What's happening is that the table's width isn't the full width of your content area, so the next paragraph is wrapping ("floating") next to it.

You can resolve this (without the eight paragraph breaks!) by using the Text Editor and modifying the HTML code that creates the table from:
<table width="412" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
to either
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
or
<table width="412" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

The first example widens the table to the full space, making the paragraphs after it drop below it. The second removes the left alignment, which would make the paragraphs drop below too.

Cheers!

Sorry for the delay in responding. The post looks good to me. Are you still having this issue or has it been resolved?

Cheers!

Thanks!

You also need to remove all of these:
<br />
all of these:
width="50" height="50"
all of these:
<a href="http://foxcleaners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tick-box.jpg">
and all of these:
</a>

You can probably copy the html for the table on your "powered by WordPress (.org)" site to paste into your WordPress.com site.

If you have pictures in the table you may want to change that part of the code so they are uploaded to your wp.com library and linked from there.

My only critique of WordPress.com is the lack of functionality to create tables within the visual post tab. I know that it is possible to create tables by coding in HTML - but I have yet to create something pleasing to the eye using this method.

As I am an academic researcher, the presentation of data and results is key to the aims of my blog and while it remains very easy to upload image files - I would like to extend this ease to tables.

I hope many more of you would like to see this feature!

I have had someone help create this website for me, and Iv just been re-writing some of the text and moving it around.

On two of my pages, there is some tables (facials and eyelash extensions). Im trying to set it up with a bold title and then directly underneath have the description of the service. This is only working on a few areas.... the rest have a space between (if i back space, it just jump back onto the same line)

I took a screen photo of what Im trying to do, but dont know how/if I can upload it.... but you should be able to see what I mean if you look on the page...

Does anyone know whats going on? and can you help me please?! :)

<img src="picture1.png" align="RIGHT">

full source

http://www.corelangs.com/html/images/border-align.html

craig.

You also need to turn this:
<table border="1">
to just:
<table>
(The border attribute, as well as several other table attributes you'll find in table tutorials or table generators, is outdated coding that doesn't work on newer themes. Newer themes have a default styling for tables, which may or may not include borders, and changing this requires a different approach.)

One issue is that while the image fits nicely in the right hand column, the text is badly affected in the left, and aligns to the bottom of the cell

See here: http://helenclarke823.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/the-independent-cafe-scene-in-headingley/

Is there a small bit of code we can add to the table to stop the text behaving so?

You can see it here:
http://yourlivingbody.com/2013/02/17/welcome-to-zinc/

So, I finally got the text aligned in table because just putting the text in on the blog template wouldn't keep it aligned. However, I hate tables. The borders are just plain ugly. Also, as you can see there are places in my list where no text is required and now there's just a blank box. Can't I just make a simple plain list and have the rows be aligned!?

.entry-content table {
	font-size: 14px;
	margin: 0 0 20px 0;
	text-align: left;
	width: 100%;
}

So in this case, the 100% width for the table is probably the main issue. To counter that using a CSS update on the Appearance → Custom Design → CSS editor, you could add a rule like this:

.entry-content table {
	width: auto;
}

Please post back if you still need help switching themes. You might like the magazine filter in the theme showcase:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/subjects/magazine/

I'm pretty certain you would be able to figure it out, it's just a matter of figuring out the right CSS rules based on whatever theme you pick.

In the live preview of many themes, our tables end up on their own rows rather than aligned properly with the text. Does anyone know how to fix that using CSS? I want to avoid purchasing a theme until I know it will work for us.

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.