I have a dashboard with 3 separate crosstabs stacked vertically. I have the same columns in all, only some filtering differs so I want to keep the columns aligned.
One of these crosstabs can be very long and a scroll bar appears. How can I keep the columns fixed and have the scrollbar appear to the right of the fixed space.
I am on cloud, and desktop is also 26.2. This used to work in previous releases using standard fit and fixing the columns, but in 26.2 the viz resized with the scrollbar instead of drawing the scrollbar outside of the columns
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Hey Matz,
Yeah, I've run into this too — sounds like a regression rather than something you're doing wrong. The "Standard" fit + "Entire View" combo used to keep fixed columns pinned and push the vertical scrollbar out past the last column, but in 2026.2 the scrollbar seems to be eating into the crosstab's own width and forcing a resize/reflow of the columns instead of sitting outside them. A few things worth trying while you wait on a possible fix:
- Double-check the fit setting per sheet. Right-click the crosstab → make sure it's still set to "Standard" (not "Fit Width" or "Entire View") — sometimes upgrades quietly reset this.
- Try fixing the container width, not just the columns. Put each crosstab in its own vertical container with a fixed/set height and width, rather than letting it float in the dashboard. Sometimes forcing the outer container size stops Tableau from trying to "helpfully" resize the inner viz to fill the space when the scrollbar appears.
- Add a floating layout container for just the long crosstab and give it a fixed pixel width slightly wider than the sum of your column widths, so there's room reserved for the scrollbar to render outside the last column rather than overlapping it.
- Test with "Show scrollbars" behavior — under the crosstab's Format pane there's sometimes a difference in how it handles overflow depending on whether it's inside a horizontal layout container vs. placed directly. Moving it out of a nested container (if you have one) has fixed similar column-shift issues for others.
- File it as a bug. This smells like a genuine regression tied to 2026.2's rendering engine changes rather than an authoring mistake on your end, especially since you said it worked fine on prior versions with the exact same setup. Worth opening a case with Salesforce/Tableau Support and referencing that it's reproducible on both Desktop and Cloud at 26.2 — that combo (same behavior across two platforms) usually gets bugs escalated faster than "it just looks off."
