Why is the Max width page option nt working for included tables?

Question

Why is the Max width page option nt working for included tables? How to resize tables to max width?

Quality wise the introduction of the Max widt option for the page should induce the same for the tables included, or at least provide  horizontal scroll bars in case not.Now it  does neither.

Dan Breyen · Accepted Answer

Hi @Raf Van Marcke welcome to the community.  I found CONFCLOUD-79811 and CONFCLOUD-74723  on Atlassian's Jira Site.  If I understand your request, I think this is functionality you are looking for.  There were several others out there that were similar. Feel free to Vote For and Watch them for future updates. I went ahead and voted too.

Hope that helps.

Joshua Brock _ Seibert Group_ GmbH · Accepted Answer

Hi @Raf Van Marcke  and Happy Friday!

Yup, you've hit a genuine platform limitation. Confluence's Max width page option controls the overall page container width, but the tables within it, especially those included via the Include Page macro, don't automatically inherit or respect that same setting.

The Jira tickets Dan shared (CONFCLOUD-79811 and CONFCLOUD-74723) are exactly the right things to vote for if you'd like this fixed natively.

In the meantime, if you're open to a marketplace app, AURA Content Formatting Macros offers an HTML macro that lets you embed custom HTML and CSS directly on a Confluence page. That means you can render a table with width: 100% styling, giving you full-width behavior independently of how Confluence's page width setting interacts with included content. It's a workaround rather than a fix, but it's available today.

A few things AURA does that are relevant here:

HTML macro — embed arbitrary HTML/CSS, including custom-styled tables that fill the available viewport width

20+ content formatting macros — tabs, cards, panels, hero sections, background content, and more, all no-code and living inside the Confluence editor

Works on both Cloud and Data Center — one of the few formatting apps available on both platforms

Live embeds — embed Figma, Miro, Google Sheets, and Excel directly in your Confluence pages

Migration Hub — if you're moving from Refined Macro Toolkit or Mosaic, it converts your macros automatically

You can find AURA on the Atlassian Marketplace: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221974

And just the FYI and full disclosure that I work at Seibert Group, the team behind the Aura Apps.

Hope this helps, best of luck and have a good weekend!

Joshua
Content Writer & US Representative
Agile Hive and Aura Apps (products of Seibert Group GmbH)