WP-Tables Reloaded Arrows Overlap – How I Fixed It (Simple)

I ran into a weird issue where the sorting arrows in the table headers for the WP-Tables Reloaded tables overlapped the text in the table header cells. This was pretty annoying, but it only seemed to happen when I had a lot of columns and the table didn’t have room to spread itself out.

WP-Tables Reloaded - Arrows overlapping the headings

What did I do to fix it? I didn’t modify CSS or anything like that. I found a couple fixes online that suggested using custom CSS or other stuff to modify the table headers.

Instead I just went the simple (maybe a bit sloppy, but who cares) route.

I just added four non-breaking spaces after each line of text in the header cells. Like this:

Add four non-breaking spaces to end of header cell text

That fixed the problem easily. Here’s what the table headers looked like after saving this table with the updated changes:

With the non-breaking spaces added

This worked well for me, and saved me from toying with the CSS. It was a terribly quick fix.

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