# Use fixed-width numbers in mobile view topic progress

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-fixed-width-numbers-in-mobile-view-topic-progress/380866>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** topic-timeline, fixed\
**Created:** [August 29, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-fixed-width-numbers-in-mobile-view-topic-progress/380866 "2025-08-29T07:37:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-fixed-width-numbers-in-mobile-view-topic-progress/380866/2 "2025-08-29T13:34:25Z")

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Good suggestion! I don’t think we’d necessarily need to change the font… we could alternatively make sure the container for the numbers is always wider than the content so there’s some “buffer” space for them to expand without shifting the layout.

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