As can be seen in the attached screenshots, Drupal's admin tables look really ridiculous when they are stretched out across the whole window.

With "width: auto;" they look really neat and professional.

The patch depends on #660718: Tables with style="width:auto;" render badly.

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Comments

jbrown’s picture

jbrown commented
Category: task » bug
Issue tags: +Usability
aspilicious’s picture

aspilicious commented

I agree it looks ridiculous on high res screens...
But your solution brings a lot of white on the page, and makes the content be squeezed to the left...

I'm leaning to your solution but i'm not entirly convinced....

mrfelton’s picture

mrfelton commented

I disagree. I use a very high-res widescreen and I think the tables look absolutely fine when stretched across the full width. It ensures things are consistent. In my opinion, what looks really bad is when tables have width:auto and there is more than one table on the screen at once because each table has it's own width and there is no overall page alignment.

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yoroy commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (duplicate)

It used to be auto for tables, we redesigned that to be 100% width for the reasons mrfelton mentions.

Marking this a duplicate of #570780: Curtail Seven widths Since it's not only tables but the whole page that gets unreadable on very wide resolutions.
I propose to set a max-width of around 1200px in the other issue.