# Container queries in Themes?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/container-queries-in-themes/299366>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [March 14, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/container-queries-in-themes/299366 "2024-03-14T16:48:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/container-queries-in-themes/299366/4 "2024-03-16T10:58:12Z")

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I believe I’ve isolated my issue: containers can’t be tables, looks like they must be divs.

I created a pen which had two identical containers, except one was a table.

The container query fails on the table, but succeeds on the otherwise almost identical div.

the ultimate solution here was moving the container up to `#list-area` which is a `div` and that solved my issue!

Really appreciate you looking at this, because confirming it should work in themes (to the extent that it does) gave me that all-important extra impetus!

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