Answers.Body: <p>Unfortunately not. To do that kind of change your best bet would be to use <a href="https://github.com/lindseydiloreto/craft-cpcss" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CPCSS</a>. It's a plugin but really only just provides you with a way to inject custom styles or a stylesheet for use in the control panel. It's well maintained by a responsible author so I don't see any reason to worry about that one.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thank you for the reassurance with the plugin. Coming from WP, it's good to know. Will give this a whirl.
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Answers.Body: <p>Change your Matrix field to a <a href="https://github.com/engram-design/SuperTable" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>SuperTable field</strong></a> and use the "Table Layout" setting for the field to accomplish this data arrangement.</p>
  
  <p>The "Table Layout" setting is here:<br>
  <a href="https://www.screencast.com/t/Y3jm9DIr" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.screencast.com/t/Y3jm9DIr</a> </p>
  
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Body: <p>Is it possible to control the Matrix layout with CSS within the CP?</p>
  
  <p>The Rich Text fields I have are currently displaying like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/wzUtO.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/wzUtO.png" alt="Craft CMS matrix default layout"></a></p>
  
  <p>But I'd like this specific field to look something like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/52zYk.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/52zYk.png" alt="Craft CMS matrix custom layout"></a></p>
  
  <p>I'd like to avoid using a plugin if possible.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: There's a related feature request here you might want to comment on: https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/825
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Tags: <control-panel><cp-dashboard>
Title: Control CP matrix layout with CSS
ThreadText: # Control CP matrix layout with CSS
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-23)
  
  Is it possible to control the Matrix layout with CSS within the CP?
  
  The Rich Text fields I have are currently displaying like this:
  
  [![Craft CMS matrix default layout](https://i.sstatic.net/wzUtO.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/wzUtO.png)
  
  But I'd like this specific field to look something like this:
  
  [![Craft CMS matrix custom layout](https://i.sstatic.net/52zYk.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/52zYk.png)
  
  I'd like to avoid using a plugin if possible.
  
  **Tags:** control-panel, cp-dashboard
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: There's a related feature request here you might want to comment on: https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/825  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-08-23. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  Unfortunately not. To do that kind of change your best bet would be to use [CPCSS](https://github.com/lindseydiloreto/craft-cpcss). It's a plugin but really only just provides you with a way to inject custom styles or a stylesheet for use in the control panel. It's well maintained by a responsible author so I don't see any reason to worry about that one.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thank you for the reassurance with the plugin. Coming from WP, it's good to know. Will give this a whirl.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2017-08-23. Score: 1
  
  Change your Matrix field to a [**SuperTable field**](https://github.com/engram-design/SuperTable) and use the "Table Layout" setting for the field to accomplish this data arrangement.
  
  The "Table Layout" setting is here:  
  <https://www.screencast.com/t/Y3jm9DIr>
  
  
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