changing table widths

Ah, good find. CSS can be tricky sometimes

The "category" class is a class which is used also by core components (like com_content) when they show tables.

Thomas Hunziker wrote: The "category" class is a class which is used also by core components (like com_content) when they show tables.

Thanks Thomas,
I am assuming then that by setting the css in media/com_sermonspeaker/css/sermonspeaker.css, it won't conflict with other components

actually if you put it in there if you upgrade sermonspeaker you might overwrite the changes.

Andrei Chernyshev wrote: actually if you put it in there if you upgrade sermonspeaker you might overwrite the changes.

aaah, good point. Thanks. Is there a place where I can write it where it won't conflict with other components, and that it won't be over-written?

best place to put it, is in your template's css file. custom.css i think for your template is last one executed.

Custom CSS should always be done in one of the templates CSS files.

If you want to make sure it doesn't conflict with other extensions, you could specify the CSS rule a bit closer.
Each view from SermonSpeaker has a div container with a unique class. This allows you to apply CSS formats only for SermonSpeaker (or even specific views).
For example: Would only apply the formatting to the sermons list table.