While working on notebooks, I frequently feel it would be nice to increase the width of the cells. The default max cell width of ~954px seems a bit small while working on many of my notebooks on a large display. Switching to fullscreen is typically overkill. I haven’t figured out a way to override i…

Related: request for semantic classes alternative editor UI (abandoned) (edit: added links to demos)

Increasing the max-width of notebooks is a little tricky because it means notebook authors may want to adjust the design of their notebooks for the wider display (if they want things to be “perfect”), but it might be something we do in the future. We might also allow the editor to go wider than the…

I’m thinking I’d rather use that extra real-estate for navigation aids. Table of contents, maybe also floating-widgets to control behavior (like a “Play/Pause” button, animation rate slider, etc.).

I would like the ability to create full-width cells. Currently, and several times before now, I’ve come into situations where it is a necessity. In the end, my application will be run outside of Observable. But for now, while working on it, or when sharing it with my colleagues, I would like to tak…

Bumping this up. I’d like the option to make cells full width: especially those used to display charts. Any solution, whether via CSS or UI/UX changes?

@josesho I would also like to bump this up if possible. We recently developed a dashboard using a custom fullscreen behavior and ui button (see link to discussion), but it would be nice to have an easier way to adjust the width of a single cell or just tell a cell to be full width (but I’m not sure …

Support for larger cell max width?

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mootari December 31, 2019, 12:52am 2

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Support for larger cell max width?

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