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Suggestion
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Hey all 👋
I’m Rory, a PM from the editor team. We are planning to explore enhancements to how your column widths (and overall table width) behave across different viewport sizes - which we believe aligns with at least part of this suggestion ticket.
I will be moving this ticket to “under consideration” to reflect this.
I would love to further clarify what this ticket means to you all - please can you help us here by responding to the question below.
What does this ticket represent to you?
Is it about:
- Providing you more control of the way your tables behave across different viewport sizes (e.g. whether your column and table widths stay fixed when viewed in different sized viewports, or whether they scale to fit where required)?
- Introducing some form of dynamic column widths which expand to accomodate the contents of the cells? For full transparency - this is not something we are planning on taking forward at this point in time.
- Both #1 and #2 above?
- Something else?
Cheers,
Rory
As we're working through this feature and others, we wanted to address a lot of your concerns as to the future of the new editor and legacy editor.
Please read our recent community post here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/Change-to-your-content-is-in-your-hands/ba-p/1324476
Thanks,
Avinoam
Description
If this issue already exists, please let me know and I'll be glad to kill this one and vote on that one instead.
In the old editor, tables can be set to "Responsive" or "Fixed." The latter allows for specific column sizes and it's almost what is currently available in the new Fabric editor. I say almost because the old editor used fixed pixel dimensions for width while the new one uses percentage widths, perhaps in order to scale better on mobile devices. In any case, while the "pseudo-fixed" nature of new column widths can be frustrating for many, it is not the issue I want to focus on here.
The Responsive version of tables in the old editor allowed for completely dynamic column widths. The columns expanded as necessary to accommodate their contents. Additionally, the table itself was only as wide as necessary to fit the contents of all the cells in all the columns. This is not currently possible in the new Fabric editor's version of tables, and it limits the usefulness of tables (and wastes significant time by requiring manual updates to column widths after updates to content).
I realize that responsive tables can be performance-degrading in browsers, but this really is a useful feature, especially in smaller tables, where performance isn't as much of an issue.
For more discussion on this, see my original post here: