title: Setting Column Width with restructuredText Grid Tables
body: <p>I have the following grid table in rST. I'd like to control the column widths <strong>for HTML output</strong> so that <code>Field type</code> occupies 20% of the table's width, <code>Description</code> occupies 30%, and <code>Example</code> occupies 50%.</p>
  
  <pre><code>+-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
  |Field type   |Description      |Example                |
  +-------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The <code>..tablularcolumns</code> directive has no impact, neither does the combination <code>..table</code> and <code>:width:</code>. For example, the following has no impact.</p>
  
  <pre><code>.. tabularcolumns:: |p{2cm}|p{3cm}|p{5cm}|
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The answer at the following SO link does not work.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27546728/how-to-fix-column-width-in-restructuredtext-tables">How to fix column width in reStructuredText tables?</a></p>
  
  <p>Any recommendation will be thoroughly blessed.</p>