# Horizontal scroll bar for wide tables visible in Mobile?

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizontal-scroll-bar-for-wide-tables-visible-in-mobile/94879 "2018-08-16T14:45:57Z")\
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When wide tables exist, in the desktop theme there is a horizontal scroll bar that hints the visitor we can scroll left and right. However in the Mobile theme there is no such scroll bar and the wide table view is really not intuitive, with visitors not being aware that the table is wider than their screen width. Could we add a scroll bar for mobile as well?

Discussion about this matter (however regarding only Desktop theme) occurred bere

> [@Horizontal scroll bar for wide tables?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizontal-scroll-bar-for-wide-tables/70360):
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> How about a horizontal scroll bar for posts with wide tables? See for example this one: Or is there any other way of getting that table diaplayed?

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