Fixing Wide Tables on Mobile Without Layout Shift Using a Responsive Wrapper
A developer documented a fix for data tables that overflowed phone screens and caused the whole page to scroll sideways on mobile. The problem appeared after a new column roughly doubled a dashboard table's width, breaking the layout and pushing the fixed header off-screen. Forcing the table to fit with fixed layout and width made the columns unreadable, and a simple scrolling wrapper without proper display settings failed to contain the overflow. The solution was a new ResponsiveTable wrapper that uses a resize observer to detect when content exceeds the viewport and enables horizontal scrolling only on screens 768 px and narrower. The original Table component remains unchanged to protect desktop behavior and avoid regressions.
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