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Why do modern pages leave so much white space?
Hi Tom!
It seems like the section contains three columns and the third one is empty. Have You tried to switch the layout option from "Three columns" to "Two Columns"?
Hi Magnus - Not sure why I missed your reply until now. I agree it looks like I have 3rd column that is empty, but that was not the case. I believe that example was using a 2 column layout.
its really bizarre. I have the same issue as well for my sites as well. I created a publishing site, but I turned on Site Pages and changed the home page to a modern page - I have the same issue, with a bunch of white space to the right hand side.
I then created an O365 Group and I had a look at the Team site there (thinking my issue could have been because I started with a publishing site - nope. The issue is here on the team site as well.
I created a Communications site (Topic) and that one didnt have any extra white space on the right hand side. Which leads me to believe its something to do with the page layout.
My experience is that every modern page layout in a team site (classic or modern) has this unused white space at the left.
I think it's weird, as you add a document or list webpart to a page and you get a horizontal scroll bar while there's loads of white space.
- So the communication site homepage template appears to allow you to use the full width of a browser only for the image and hero webparts. All other webparts will appear on the page as centre aligned.
Whereas on the homepage template on a team site - there is no option to have a section that takes up the full width of a browser screen, and everything is left aligned - which generally looks pretty average on a laptop with a decent screen resolution!
