# Questions about displaying wide tables

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-displaying-wide-tables/260042>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [March 31, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-displaying-wide-tables/260042 "2023-03-31T02:45:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jlc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jlc/32/251717_2.png) [@jlc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jlc)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-displaying-wide-tables/260042/6 "2023-03-31T17:48:25Z")

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Ah yes, I see that the author of that first post even mentions that the first table is a Markdown table and the second one is HTML, although I suppose I didn’t expect that to be relevant, at first. And then, looking at the cooked source, I see that Markdown tables (like the one @mattdm posted earlier) are wrapped in a `<div class="md-table">`. I wonder why there is a specific class for Markdown tables, and why Discourse only displays wide tables of that type with scroll bars. This is starting to seem like a bug to me; do others agree?

I am also still curious about the expand table button functionality. I see the button included in the cooked source for the example table from earlier in this topic and also in the cooked source for the second table (the HTML table) in the “Expand Table button shows wrong table” post, but not in the first table (the Markdown table) in that post. But those buttons are not displayed when you hover over the respective tables, as far as I can see.

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