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Wide region rail

A six-region availability matrix set wider than the measure that introduces it: the heading holds a 32rem column while the table breaks out to the wide width and scrolls sideways in WordPress's own table scroller on a narrow screen.

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Twenty Twenty-Five·1280px

Manrope typefacergb(255, 255, 255) ground1280px viewport

The signature moment

The table runs past its own measure

The eyebrow, heading and lede are held in a 32rem column at the left. The table breaks out to the wide width beside them, so the section reads as a narrow statement with a wide instrument under it. That is the asymmetry; nothing is decorated to get it.

Theme handoff

What comes from where

From your theme

  • The typeface.
  • Your colours.
  • The wide width.

Full pattern notes

Why it works, and how it is built

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Design rationaleComposition, intent and nearest alternatives

Overview

A six-region availability matrix: one row per service, one column per region, introduced by a heading that deliberately does not run as wide as the data.

The signature moment: the table runs past its own measure

The eyebrow, heading and lede are held in a 32rem column at the left. The table breaks out to the wide width beside them, so the section reads as a narrow statement with a wide instrument under it. That is the asymmetry; nothing is decorated to get it.

The second half of the signature is what happens when the instrument stops fitting. The table states hasFixedLayout: false, so its columns size to their content instead of being forced equal, and .wp-block-table is a WordPress core overflow-x: auto container. Below roughly 900px the table is wider than the page and the buyer swipes it sideways, with every column intact. It never shreds a word to fit, which is what table-layout: fixed and its word-break: break-word do on a phone.

No CSS ships to buy that. It is core's own stylesheet, and the only decision the pattern makes is to stop opting out of it.

Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast

What it inherits from your theme

  • The typeface. No font family is stated anywhere.
  • Your colours. base for the ground, contrast for text; the closing rule and every table border are currentColor, so they follow whatever your theme paints text in.
  • The wide width. The table takes align: wide, so how far past the measure it runs is your theme's wideSize, not ours.
Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints

What happens at 390px

The heading column and the lede stack as normal. The table becomes a horizontal rail inside its own figure: the page does not scroll sideways, the table does. The note under the rule says so in words, because a scroll container with no affordance is a silent failure of its own. It is an ordinary paragraph and not the table block's figcaption, for a measured reason: Twenty Twenty-Four sizes a caption at 0.8em, which lands at 12.8px, under the catalogue's 14px floor, and a pattern ships no CSS with which to argue.

What a buyer changes first

The region columns. Add or remove a <th> in the head and the matching <td> in every row; the layout has no column count in it, and a seventh region simply makes the rail longer.

Questions

Wide region rail: common questions

Does Wide region rail need a plugin?

No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (group, heading, paragraph and table), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install.

Will Wide region rail match my theme?

Yes. It names no colour or font of its own: every colour, size and space is a preset from your theme, so it takes your theme’s palette and type when pasted.

How many variations does Wide region rail have?

2: Paper and Night rail. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy.

Is Wide region rail free?

It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 62 Core Patterns are free to copy without one.

Which WordPress version does it need?

Requires a block theme on WordPress 7.0 to 7.1. Classic themes and page builders are outside our supported setup. Adaptive patterns use the block theme’s colour, spacing and typography presets; styled variations declare their own colours or type.

The markup

6.7KB of core-block markup, 4 blocks (group, heading, paragraph, table), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme.

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