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Why do modern team sites prevent you from using the full width of a page?
There are various reasons for this. The first being, Microsoft has invested a lot of time and money into accessibility in Modern SharePoint. Today, we have monitors with extremely large resolutions and it really poses a complexity for accessibility to make sure content is easily read across screen sizes. It's basically an industry standard now to not use full width layouts in order to better support various screen sizes.
To give you some insight, David Warner made a great video about why the whitespace exists and in fact, why it really isn't a bad thing at all. http://warner.digital/modern-sharepoint-pages-layouts-and-whitespace/
As someone else mentioned, there is an effort to support 1920px, but as you expect, you still wouldn't get full width on a 4k screen. Watch the video, it will definitely help understand the purpose around white space.
Dynamic page sizing is used by many other companies and many other products for the purpose of maintaining readability across platforms. The current modern Sharepoint pages assume people are still using old resolution monitors. I currently use a "standard" 1920x1080 screen size and have approximately a third of the screen unused (blank white on the right side). The reasoning listed is simply an excuse. This is not acceptable, ever.
Hi Chris. HOW DARE YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH!!??
You said it right, just an excuse. Why? Because like the rest of their 'stuff', nothing is truly completed. All the tech is relegated to ~75% completion missing small but important, standard, everyday expected functionality. But, nope. You have to add these requests into the rabbit hole: "UserVoice".
Definitely not in the year 2023 when all monitors are 16x9, except say for a few kiosk monitors.
-Ross
- CLAPPING!!!!!
- 2022 and still the same. There's always some kind of excuse for every gotcha.
- Yup, if you want to develop an internal site for your end users that doesn't look amateurish you're definitely going to want to go with a modern CMS system not one that is constantly 10+ years behind.
- Wow are you ever right Ross!! Problem is...............it's just me. I'm the only user, I have M365 for my own data but run it as though I have a user base.
