Issues with a resolution in confluence page

Patryk Kogut

We're building a Confluence space to centralize and share knowledge across multiple teams. However, we've encountered an issue with how content is being presented. Many team members are using tables to structure information and instructions. This approach is causing layout and readability problems—particularly on smaller screens or mobile devices—since tables don't respond well to different screen sizes.

We're looking for best practices or recommended layout strategies to present standard work instructions in a clean, responsive, and user-friendly way. What approaches have you successfully used to create well-structured, scalable content without relying on tables for layout?

Kristian Klima_gtcuat

Hi @Patryk Kogut and welcome to the Community.

In general, tables are notoriously hard to display so I try to keep them at minum and only when they're necessary = displaying relationship / definitions among multiple categories of enttities.

I don't use tables when

• there are only two columns
  this is how I do it = basically, a bullet point with the term, then definition follows using a soft return
  
  
  • Or you can do another ident for the definition and/or other elements
• avoid using lists, let along ordered lists for procedures in the table
  I know this is tempting but such tables are inherently detrimental to the readers ability to navigate and understand. I've seen truely attrocious tables with multiple cells featuring complex procedures, notes. 
  
  In other words, the advantage to show relationships between so many elements in one place evaporates over the sheer complextity of the content crammed into cells.
  
  I learned that there is always a way to organize your information differently.
  
  

Having said that, if you have to sort 10 elements vertically and 15 elements horizontaly with simple cell content, go for a table. You may look into 'theme' apps that can render tables better (example). 

But there always be a situation where the table's physical size meets the limits set by the screens's pixels.