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This seems like your implementation problem. What would you expect TanStack Table to do differently?

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This is the exact same example as from the https://tanstack.com/table/latest/docs/framework/react/examples/column-pinning-sticky but with the fixed width style removed. If the TanStack recommendation is to use column.getStart('left') to determine the position of the sticky column, I would expect it to react to a fluid table width. column.getStart('left') doesn't actually report the start of the column which is confusing.

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@thomassimko Adding a minWidth along with width fixes it

Otherwise, you'll just have to change the width's and start values to use percentages or something if you actually want to allow the columns to squeeze

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So based off your response, this library does not support pinned columns in a fluid table without specifying the width of the column as px percentages. Currently I am using a ResizeObserver that is calculating each column's bounding rect in order to calculate the true position of the pinned column, rather than using the library's getStart methods. I was hoping that there would be a cleaner way to achieve this.

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@thomassimko I guess I don't get what you would expect. TanStack Table doesn't really have a way of knowing if you change the total width of the table or not. It you are using it's size system, it expects the elements to be styled to be that exact size. If you are allowing columns to be squished together, how would the table instance know, and how would it measure?

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