Colspan has no effect PageModule when using Fluid rendering

[YKWeyer]

When using fluidBasedPageModule on TYPO3 v11, the colCount / colspan keys has no effect on the rendering in the Page module. All columns will automatically be adjusted based on their content.

It seems to be caused by the lack of a <colgroup> tag inside the grids <table>

[Cybercraft-GmbH]

colspan has nothing to do with adjusted widths of table cells or their respective ration to each other. It just determines the way table cells overlap each other.

Since a fixed maximum width of a cell will break the rendering of nested Gridelements at a certain point, this behaviour most likely won't change in the near future. Even colgroup tags could only determine a minimum width, but would not help to fix that problem completely, since a maximum width again would break nested structures.

[YKWeyer]

Since a fixed maximum width of a cell will break the rendering of nested Gridelements at a certain point, this behaviour most likely won't change in the near future

I am very sorry for the lack of clarity, but it is not a feature request but a bug report.

This is something that used to work, and that probably still works when the fluid rendering is disabled, since it still is part of the DrawItem::renderGridLayoutTable logic.