How do I make sure tables fill the width of the page or column in a multicoloum context?

[gezepi]

The question boils down to the same one asked here:

How can I robustly make (unknown) tables span the full page width?

I am writing a template for a document that will have lots of programmatically created tables inserted. Per our style guide, all tables have to span the full page width. The only way to do this that I currently know is to have at least one column with an fr column width. However, if you don’t know what content is going to be in a table you have to fear edge cases. If you have a lot of content, the auto setting in general does a good job: #table( columns: (auto, auto, auto), )[#lorem(80)][#…

There are some solutions given in that thread that you could incorporate.