Is it possible to change the width of columns in Kanban boards?

Esther Strom January 28, 2019

In Cloud, using a next-gen project as a demo. The board that's created by default is Kanban. Next-gen projects can only have three statuses: to do, in progress, and done. The board uses fixed-width columns, as far as I can tell, which means that the columns on a large monitor are very narrow, causing content to wrap, even though there's a ton of white space off to the right.

Is there any way to change the column widths, or make them responsive?

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27 answers

24 votes
Berkay Somalı September 4, 2019

Responsive column width would be great!

13 votes
Nemanja Bubnjevic September 23, 2019

Hi, is this going to be fixed/implemented, since it looks ridiculous, especially on large screens? For example on QHD resolution

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10 votes
Jan Bennett February 15, 2020

I'm thinking of going back to Excel sheets.

7 votes
Marcin Waś April 12, 2021

This next-gen starts to look like lost-gen project. 2 years and still no adjustable columns... rubbish.

Marcin Waś October 10, 2021

Another half of year passed and I still do not see this basic functionality :(

Jim Credland January 27, 2022

Still not here :)

alex.walton July 2, 2023

Did you give up waiting? 

Marcin Waś November 23, 2023

Yeah, I gave up waiting... the only change they did was with upgrade of layout which is much bigger that old one, so white space now is smaller. Also they removed old types of project, where columns adjusted their width. This is sad :(

3 votes
Nick Massie June 9, 2021

Yall some hoes for not allowing us to resize columns.

Kevin Malm September 1, 2023

Amen.

2 votes
Fernando Henriques May 25, 2023

vote +1

2 votes
Jérémie LOPEZ March 27, 2023

Any news about this?
Any registered feature request we could vote for?

1 vote
Corin Bolles July 6, 2023

+1

1 vote
Jim Credland August 24, 2022

Surely this can be done easily!

1 vote
Diogo Nunes August 2, 2021

After almost 3 years waiting, it's clear we won't get it. Is there any hack we can do client side (some Javascript?) to change the CSS of the columns and have them use the full width?

1 vote
Cristin Iosif July 5, 2021

+1

1 vote
Jamie Wetzel June 25, 2021

adding another vote for making Kanban board column width adjustable.

1 vote
tyler_healey February 8, 2021

You know why they've done it this way? It's because the next gen boards almost certainly are using Trello code and that was always an annoying thing about Trello – narrow as hell columns.

 

It's been 2 years since this question was asked and apparently wider columns is too "next-gen" for these Next Gen boards

1 vote
Robert_Antoniewicz May 14, 2020

Please make it responsive, it is even painful to look at this :(

0 votes
yen.nguyen November 21, 2022

+1 for adjustable column width

0 votes
Jeremy Tarpey March 29, 2022

+1

0 votes
3layer Gestão Compartilhada September 10, 2021

+1

0 votes
Loïc Sombart September 9, 2021

+1

0 votes
Gerald Eersteling February 1, 2021

+1

0 votes
Innive EdFi January 24, 2021

+1

0 votes
Dyno Fu August 20, 2020

+1

0 votes
Fei Gao July 16, 2020

vote +1

0 votes
Sebastian Schneider June 9, 2020

+1 :-)

0 votes
Dale Strickler May 20, 2020

Yeah, this next-gen project is just a little too limited.  These non-responsive column widths are bad.

I may kill the project and go back to a non-next-gen.  I really want to add at least one state too!

0 votes
Elliot Krass January 9, 2020

Plus one from me on this. Having set up a bunch of next gen projects after previously using classic, the narrow columns are a hit on usability.

Please make them responsive!

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