Full width Tables Scroll bar frustration - Option for forcing full width tables.
Asked by John Fenger:

In Edit mode:

Is there a way to Make Full with Tables that ACTUALLY stay full width and dynamically adjust to the size of the browser W/out showing scroll

Problem I make a page full screen, and a table full screen i am on a laptop with a lower resolution. My tables are not ACTUALLY full screen they are just as Wide as i could drag them.

People hate scroll bars... i know confluence lately seems to love scroll bars but trust me users do not like horizonal scroll bars. ESP in EDIT

**Due to hate of scrolling this is what is happening:**

Due to the hatred of scroll bars people try and "fix them in edit mode by grabbing the ressize side bar

![f.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/316379i2693FD10C6377E68/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "f.png")

"fix that scroll in edit on my laptop" so i grab resize and drag to "Full width"

![f2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/316380iAF64AEE8920CA130/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "f2.png")

Sweet i fixed that table so i can edit it on my smaller screen! i am so smart. Mean while...

![f3.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/316381iEC1D1AB61B174936/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "f3.png")

This is what the page looks like for everyone else on a larger monitor... since "fixing it" to full screen from your perspective actually just made it a smaller table on the page.

**For some context:**

* 100% of the time my entire company wants to use Full width Pages
* 100% of the time my entire company wants to use Full width tables. (or left justified, NO one on earth wants a center justified table floating in the middle of the page)
* Oh we end up with TONS pages that have ugly floating tables in the middle of them... OR are Not Fulls screen. But its never by choice its always by "i don't understand how confluence works, or confluence is stupid" which is 90% of our Confluence users, and why i still get word documents shared with me all the time.
* So if you look at your analytics data you may think "oh lots of people use this and are fine with it, PM WIN!". this would be you just looking at Data and not talking to your customers a Common yet Serous PM problem. To just use data without backing the data up with contextual understand of the users desires can often lead to bad things.

Please just give me a way to say "make table full Page width" then make it so, and dynamically resize in edit and keep it there. almost no user wants to drag a table size to 94% of page width.


Answers:
author: Maria Luisa Perdices Castillo EXT
body: I actually have the same problem :-(  
Please, we urgently need to solve this, we need responsive tables that automatically adjust to the full screen/page width, horizontal scroll bars are uneasy when consulting information in tables since de focus from the first column is lost.

comments: author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@Maria Luisa Perdices Castillo EXT](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5529598) Welcome to the Community.

Please check this article about a recent update related to tables: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/%EF%B8%8F-Confluence-tables-power-up-with-left-alignment-and-more/ba-p/2732876>


author: Maria Luisa Perdices Castillo EXT
body: Hi [@Barbara Szczesniak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5187859)

Thank you for the information but I still have problems. I've set my page to "full-width" and I used the resize handle to snap my table to the guide near the edge of the page, so table is full-width, too. But when I move to a smaller screen (for example, a laptop) the scroll bar appears, and so it does when I reduce the browser window manually to a even smaller size.


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: I believe this will happen if you set the individual columns to Fixed Width (#4 in the article), but there may be something where the scaling is reaching the point where it breaks down (logic in #2).

You might want to comment on the article about the situation you are facing. Since you responded on a previous post, people will only see your comments if they are watching the original post. I suspect more people are watching this new article.


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