Why am I having problems with my table width?

[Martin Mo]

Why is it when I resize the table width to "100%" it comes out perfectly on Confluence but not to the PDF Export?

Am I doing something wrong?

[Ann Worley · Accepted solution]

Thanks for including so many details. It looks like you are sizing your tables in the Source Editor, which can introduce user errors, but it looks fine.

I found a good workaround in this ticket: Each column has same width in a table regardless of the contents on exported PDF It's not the exact same issue but the PDF stylesheet suggested did improve my export. What I did was go to Space Tools>Look and Feel and add the following to the PDF stylesheet:

table.confluenceTable {
 width: 100%;
 table-layout: fixed;
}

Here is my Confluence page:

Without the PDF stylesheet my export looked like:

After I added the stylesheet:

A little background: PDF exports of tables have been historically problematic - check out this partial list of bugs:

I look forward to hearing whether a PDF stylesheet helps you get the exports the way you want them.

[Martin Mo]

Thanks, this worked :)