The table column size is automatically changed in view mode

[Jess Tran]

I have my table columns in confluence sized properly in edit mode. However, when i saved it, in view mode, the columns size are automatically-changed in a way that it's so hard to read. This is very inconvenient. Hope Confluence developer team can fix

[Rodrigo]

Good day @Jess Tran and welcome to the community!

Is your table nested within a macro? I have observed that, when placed within macros, table sizes can automatically adjust to fit the text or content inside.

In case that is your experience, a workaround is to modify the size of the table manually, which will cause it to respect the given size when published. 

But naturally, hope this changes in the future.

With friendly regards
Rodrigo

[Björn Schill]

We have a similar problem. Most, but not all of the tables in our confluence documents are suddenly displayed with a very wide first column, compressing the other columns to just a few character width.

while editing everything looks ok. Manualy resizing the columns by a few pixels doesn't change anything, after saving the tables are still displayed with said wide first column.

The problem affects export to pdf, too

Edit: in our instance the problem appears with tables that are within macros and with tables that are just part of a page.
Some of the pages haven't been edited in the last few month 

[Björn Schill]

Update: resizing the whole table (action thingie on the right of the table) does indeed work. After saving the table looks as intended.

We were trying to resize the columns, the resize function for the whole table was new for us.

Still, it will be quite an annoyance to do this all by hand in our rather large confluence instance

[Rodrigo]

Hello @Björn Schill!

Does this happen for your team on Cloud? Does it trigger with other browsers or in incognito mode? 

Here, placing a simple table should not cause any resizing and stick to an even distribution. Some other factor (or browser setting) could influence this behavior, and a quick test in other browsers could help.

Best regards
Rodrigo

[Björn Schill]

Hey,

we use Cloud, yes.
It happened in safari, firefox, chrome and vivaldi. 

I couldn't reproduce the behaviour on a new page yesterday, but it appeared on pages that had existing tables that were a few days old up to pages that were a few years old

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Jess Tran As I can see from the comment @Björn Schill left on the Jira ticket, he has found the bug reported for this: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-75324 

You may want to go to this ticket and indicate that it affects your team and watch it for developments.