Tables in posts

A table in a Neutrino post is never allowed to break the page. Tables are the classic cause of a mobile layout blowing out sideways — a six-column comparison that is fine on a laptop turns a phone into a horizontally-scrolling mess where the whole article, header and all, slides around.

In Neutrino a table that is too wide scrolls sideways on its own while the rest of the page stays exactly where it is. If it fits, it sits still. And it keeps its natural column widths while doing so, which is the part that is harder than it looks — the obvious approaches make a table scroll at the cost of its alignment, so the columns stop lining up with their headings.

There is one deliberate trade-off. Cell text is capped at a comfortable reading width, which means a two-column table with short entries will not stretch to fill the full paragraph width — it sits narrower, centred. That was chosen knowingly: allowing narrow tables to fill would also allow prose in wide tables to run at line lengths that are genuinely hard to read.