Multi-Column Layout Issues

Comments focus on problems with multi-column layouts in web design and tables, such as alignment, spacing, responsiveness, scrolling, and screen size compatibility.

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carlesfe • Sep 5, 2012 • View on HN

Please do. I'm fighting with the columns too, can't get it right

nixpulvis • Dec 23, 2023 • View on HN

Looks like it might benefit from having dynamic column widths determined by the content. Lots of wasted space in the IDs.

agos • Apr 17, 2025 • View on HN

the design is really cool, but the two columns are really confusing on a screen that is not tall enough to fully contain them

lsiebert • Jan 26, 2015 • View on HN

Hey Joel,This has multiple columns that are taller than the browser window... so you have to scroll up and down.This would benefit from being broken up, with more white space. I'd strongly suggest a single column.

iSnow • Jul 24, 2014 • View on HN

The browser could distribute the white space between columns to avoid this.

naringas • Oct 30, 2019 • View on HN

this is not about columns nor line lengths, it's about the width of the single column relative to screen size.

visarga • Oct 24, 2017 • View on HN

Narrow column would be easier. Full screen width is not best practice.

Readywater • Aug 18, 2022 • View on HN

Love it. Now give me a columnar layout.

meowface • Feb 28, 2014 • View on HN

Looks nice, though I feel keeping the right 2 columns at a fixed position would make things easier to read.

Eiriksmal • Apr 9, 2019 • View on HN

Nice! That does make for an extremely-classy table. My only suggestion is that, at 1080p, there's an eye-water 330px gap between the text in the 1st and 2nd columns in the first table. This makes it a bit difficult to tell if quinoa is 1:1.25 or 1:6-1:7. Perhaps there's an elegant way to clamp the maximum table width that works for all 4 tables?