Codex Desktop: DataAnalysisWidget content stretches after expanding the side panel

Resolved 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 15, 2026 by YCX81 Closed Jul 15, 2026

Summary

In Codex Desktop on Windows, a report rendered by DataAnalysisWidget becomes unnaturally stretched after opening it in the right-side panel and clicking the panel's Expand/Maximize control.

The extra width is applied directly to the report content instead of preserving a readable content width and responsive padding. Long paragraphs become difficult to scan, and wide tables can still show horizontal overflow.

Environment

  • Codex Desktop: 26.707.9981.0
  • Platform: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
  • Surface: generated DataAnalysisWidget report in the Codex Desktop right-side panel
  • Main Codex window: maximized

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Codex Desktop on Windows.
  2. Open a thread containing a generated DataAnalysisWidget report.
  3. Open the report in the right-side panel.
  4. Click the Expand/Maximize control in the upper-right of the DataAnalysisWidget panel.
  5. Observe the report layout.

Expected behavior

Expanding the panel should provide more room while keeping:

  • a reasonable maximum reading width for prose;
  • responsive left/right padding;
  • tables constrained to their own responsive container;
  • no page-level horizontal overflow.

Actual behavior

The report content stretches across the expanded width. Text lines become excessively long, spacing/padding no longer looks balanced, and table content can overflow horizontally.

Additional information

This is specific to the Codex Desktop DataAnalysisWidget/report view, not the main conversation layout.

A related issue, #23704, reports a similar stretching symptom in the VS Code extension's Codex side panel, but this report affects a different product surface and renderer.

Screenshots demonstrating the before/after layout are available and can be provided if needed.

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