fix(web): wide chat tables fit the lane when cells wrap by mkantautas · Pull Request #20878 · pingdotgg/t3code

mkantautas · 2026-10-17T10:06:34Z

Expanded chat tables kept their max-content width even after cells wrapped, so prose columns still disappeared beyond the lane. This removes the column-width pinning and lets expanded tables fit timeline lanes at least 36rem wide. Headings wrap with the cells; narrower lanes keep horizontal scrolling. Collapsing restores the original compact layout. Unbreakable content can still require horizontal scrolling.

Original fix by @mkantautas in #20878, updated against current main.

Verification:

Four focused cases added to the existing markdown browser suite (68→72 tests). Removing the original fix causes two desktop failures; the adversarial heading case failed before the follow-up rule. Final head: 72 passed.
Web typecheck, targeted lint, formatting and diff checks passed.
Two independent adversarial review rounds using Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol. Round one found nowrap headings; the shared fixture now covers them. Final round: no blockers; accepted that the threshold measures the timeline lane, including tables inside narrower message bubbles.
Integrated Linux Chromium web app, synthetic stored chat data, matching 1280×800 viewport and expanded table state. Baseline container 644px/table 963px; final head table 644px/container 644px. Narrow viewport retains a 963px scroll area inside a 358px viewport; horizontal scrolling reaches the last column. Host fonts normalized with DejaVu Sans for both captures.

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Not verified: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android or Electron desktop. Native mobile uses a separate renderer and is outside this change; Safari/WebKit and native desktop remain human checks.

Tests: GPT-6 Astra; implementation: GPT-6.1 Sol; adversarial reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol. Codex and Claude Code harnesses, delegated through T3 Code.

macroscopeapp · 2026-10-17T10:09:25Z

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Verdict: Approved at 2c590ba

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused web UI bug fix that changes only the sizing and wrapping of expanded markdown tables in sufficiently wide chat lanes. Existing table controls, collapsed/mobile behavior, settings defaults, and application workflows remain unchanged.

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Expanded Markdown tables now use chat-lane container queries to shrink and wrap at widths of at least 36rem. Narrower lanes retain natural table widths and horizontal scrolling. Expanding a table no longer measures cell widths or sets header minimum widths.

Changes: Markdown table sizing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expanded table layout `apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx`, `apps/web/src/index.css`	The timeline content lane establishes a named container. Expansion now only toggles the expanded state. At widths of at least 36rem, expanded tables may shrink to the lane and cells wrap at word boundaries.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5f6fa

This change adjusts how expanded chat tables fit the lane. Nothing in the supplied context points to a concrete merge-blocking risk. Cross-browser behavior in Safari and Firefox was not checked by the author.

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Add regression coverage for both table-copy actions.

MarkdownTable binds Copy as Markdown and Copy as CSV directly to handleCopy. No inspected test invokes either action or asserts the clipboard output. Add focused tests for both formats using a rendered Markdown table and the existing clipboard stub. These tests will detect regressions in the container lookup and table serialization.
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mkantautas · 2026-10-17T10:14:24Z

@coderabbitai The copy actions are unchanged in this PR. It only touches table sizing and the expand toggle, so copy tests would be a separate change. Leaving this nitpick out of scope.

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With Word wrap on, table cells wrapped but the table still laid out at its unwrapped width, so the last columns were cut off at the lane edge behind a scrollbar that only shows on hover. In a timeline row at least 36rem wide an expanded table now fits the lane and its columns narrow down to their longest word. Phone-width lanes and collapsed tables keep scrolling sideways. The expand toggle no longer pins header widths, which held columns at their collapsed widths and kept an expanded table from fitting.

juliusmarminge · 2026-10-19T02:37:53Z

Taking over this one as part of the composer-chat maintainer batch. I will verify the current timeline integration, fitted desktop tables, the collapse/expand round trip, and narrow-lane scrolling.

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mkantautas force-pushed the fix/wide-table-lane branch from 2c590ba to 5f6fab5 Compare October 18, 2026 09:16

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/wide-table-lane

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