Confluence cloud table column width

[Hakim Haidar]

I am running into an issue working in tables, I want to create a table with many columns, once the table reaches width of the screen, adding more columns shrinks the existing cells but keeps the table width fixed to 1 page. I want to be able to add many columns and assign fixed length to cells and scroll right to see more columns, but it seems that the table is fixed by the screen width and all the columns are displayed on one page making them unreadable when you have many columns. Is there a way to accomplish what I want?   

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Hakim Haidar Welcome to the Atlassian Community. The behavior you are experiencing is the standard for Confluence pages. They are designed and intended to fit to screen. That being said, you can fit more on the screen by changing the width of the page. The standard is centered. But you can go full screen width by clicking on the <--> arrows next to the page information at the top of the  page when in edit mode.

I hope this helps!

[Hakim Haidar]

Thank you Andrew, I already used the <--> to toggle between screen width and fixed width, but it still is based on just one page. This was not the standard back in 2017, I used confluence back then and I did large tables without running into this issue. I am assuming confluence changed that on newer releases.  Thank you again for your help