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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
- Beau Cameron points to David Warners' video which explains the white space. The video clearly compares all Sharepoint content to industry leading web pages and the use of smaller (phones) devices as being a majority of the site usage. Not sure if others use SP the way we do but our SP site is strictly our internal intranet site used only by our employees who all access it via computers with 1920x1080 monitors. Don't really care if it looks clutsy on a phone since that will never be our primary use scenario. So trying to explain why MS has done this doesn't help. Dynamically sizing the screen regardless of screen resolution should be the goal as opposed to shoving fixed width down everyone's throats while trying to justify it as "the future" or that is what the majority uses. Context here is very important.
- Oh boy, if people are using SP on a mobile devices then they have a lot more issues then screen size and orientation! The mobile device CSS are from like 15 years ago and are practically useless.
- CLAPPING!!!!!
