diff --git a/packages/table/src/resize-event.js b/packages/table/src/resize-event.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a02a9ec10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/table/src/resize-event.js
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+/**
+* Modified from https://github.com/sdecima/javascript-detect-element-resize
+*
+* version: 0.5.3
+**/
+
+const requestFrame = (function() {
+  const raf = window.requestAnimationFrame || window.mozRequestAnimationFrame || window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||
+    function(fn) {
+      return window.setTimeout(fn, 20);
+    };
+  return function(fn) {
+    return raf(fn);
+  };
+})();
+
+const cancelFrame = (function() {
+  const cancel = window.cancelAnimationFrame || window.mozCancelAnimationFrame || window.webkitCancelAnimationFrame || window.clearTimeout;
+  return function(id) {
+    return cancel(id);
+  };
+})();
+
+const resetTrigger = function(element) {
+  const trigger = element.__resizeTrigger__;
+  const expand = trigger.firstElementChild;
+  const contract = trigger.lastElementChild;
+  const expandChild = expand.firstElementChild;
+
+  contract.scrollLeft = contract.scrollWidth;
+  contract.scrollTop = contract.scrollHeight;
+  expandChild.style.width = expand.offsetWidth + 1 + 'px';
+  expandChild.style.height = expand.offsetHeight + 1 + 'px';
+  expand.scrollLeft = expand.scrollWidth;
+  expand.scrollTop = expand.scrollHeight;
+};
+
+const checkTriggers = function(element) {
+  return element.offsetWidth !== element.__resizeLast__.width || element.offsetHeight !== element.__resizeLast__.height;
+};
+
+const scrollListener = function(event) {
+  resetTrigger(this);
+  if (this.__resizeRAF__) cancelFrame(this.__resizeRAF__);
+  this.__resizeRAF__ = requestFrame(() => {
+    if (checkTriggers(this)) {
+      this.__resizeLast__.width = this.offsetWidth;
+      this.__resizeLast__.height = this.offsetHeight;
+      this.__resizeListeners__.forEach((fn) => {
+        fn.call(this, event);
+      });
+    }
+  });
+};
+
+/* Detect CSS Animations support to detect element display/re-attach */
+const attachEvent = document.attachEvent;
+const DOM_PREFIXES = 'Webkit Moz O ms'.split(' ');
+const START_EVENTS = 'webkitAnimationStart animationstart oAnimationStart MSAnimationStart'.split(' ');
+const RESIZE_ANIMATION_NAME = 'resizeanim';
+let animation = false;
+let keyFramePrefix = '';
+let animationStartEvent = 'animationstart';
+
+if (!attachEvent) {
+  const testElement = document.createElement('fakeelement');
+  if (testElement.style.animationName !== undefined) {
+    animation = true;
+  }
+
+  if (animation === false) {
+    let prefix = '';
+    for (var i = 0; i < DOM_PREFIXES.length; i++) {
+      if (testElement.style[DOM_PREFIXES[i] + 'AnimationName'] !== undefined) {
+        prefix = DOM_PREFIXES[i];
+        keyFramePrefix = '-' + prefix.toLowerCase() + '-';
+        animationStartEvent = START_EVENTS[i];
+        animation = true;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+let stylesCreated = false;
+const createStyles = function() {
+  if (!stylesCreated) {
+    const animationKeyframes = `@${keyFramePrefix}keyframes ${RESIZE_ANIMATION_NAME} { from { opacity: 0; } to { opacity: 0; } } `;
+    const animationStyle = `${keyFramePrefix}animation: 1ms ${RESIZE_ANIMATION_NAME};`;
+
+    // opacity: 0 works around a chrome bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=286360
+    const css = `${animationKeyframes}
+      .resize-triggers { ${animationStyle} visibility: hidden; opacity: 0; }
+      .resize-triggers, .resize-triggers > div, .contract-trigger:before { content: \" \"; display: block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%; overflow: hidden; }
+      .resize-triggers > div { background: #eee; overflow: auto; }
+      .contract-trigger:before { width: 200%; height: 200%; }`;
+
+    const head = document.head || document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
+    const style = document.createElement('style');
+
+    style.type = 'text/css';
+    if (style.styleSheet) {
+      style.styleSheet.cssText = css;
+    } else {
+      style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
+    }
+
+    head.appendChild(style);
+    stylesCreated = true;
+  }
+};
+
+export const addResizeListener = function(element, fn) {
+  if (attachEvent) {
+    element.attachEvent('onresize', fn);
+  } else {
+    if (!element.__resizeTrigger__) {
+      if (getComputedStyle(element).position === 'static') {
+        element.style.position = 'relative';
+      }
+      createStyles();
+      element.__resizeLast__ = {};
+      element.__resizeListeners__ = [];
+
+      const resizeTrigger = element.__resizeTrigger__ = document.createElement('div');
+      resizeTrigger.className = 'resize-triggers';
+      resizeTrigger.innerHTML = '<div class="expand-trigger"><div></div></div><div class="contract-trigger"></div>';
+      element.appendChild(resizeTrigger);
+
+      resetTrigger(element);
+      element.addEventListener('scroll', scrollListener, true);
+
+      /* Listen for a css animation to detect element display/re-attach */
+      if (animationStartEvent) {
+        resizeTrigger.addEventListener(animationStartEvent, function(event) {
+          if (event.animationName === RESIZE_ANIMATION_NAME) {
+            resetTrigger(element);
+          }
+        });
+      }
+    }
+    element.__resizeListeners__.push(fn);
+  }
+};
+
+export const removeResizeListener = function(element, fn) {
+  if (attachEvent) {
+    element.detachEvent('onresize', fn);
+  } else {
+    element.__resizeListeners__.splice(element.__resizeListeners__.indexOf(fn), 1);
+    if (!element.__resizeListeners__.length) {
+      element.removeEventListener('scroll', scrollListener);
+      element.__resizeTrigger__ = !element.removeChild(element.__resizeTrigger__);
+    }
+  }
+};
diff --git a/packages/table/src/table.vue b/packages/table/src/table.vue
index f6f1c1af9..3b6628bd2 100644
--- a/packages/table/src/table.vue
+++ b/packages/table/src/table.vue
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   import debounce from 'throttle-debounce/debounce';
   import { getScrollBarWidth, orderBy } from './util';
   import objectAssign from 'object-assign';
+  import { addResizeListener, removeResizeListener } from './resize-event';
 
   let gridIdSeed = 1;
   let GUTTER_WIDTH;
@@ -299,10 +300,10 @@
         this.$calcColumns();
 
         if (!this.$ready && this.fit) {
-          this.windowResizeListener = throttle(100, () => {
+          this.windowResizeListener = throttle(50, () => {
             this.$calcColumns();
           });
-          window.addEventListener('resize', this.windowResizeListener);
+          addResizeListener(this.$el, this.windowResizeListener);
         }
 
         this.$nextTick(() => {
@@ -395,7 +396,7 @@
       }
 
       if (this.windowResizeListener) {
-        window.removeEventListener('resize', this.windowResizeListener);
+        removeResizeListener(this.$el, this.windowResizeListener);
       }
     },
 
diff --git a/packages/theme-default/src/table.css b/packages/theme-default/src/table.css
index a8db7d17e..bddd2686e 100644
--- a/packages/theme-default/src/table.css
+++ b/packages/theme-default/src/table.css
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
 
     & th, td {
       height: 20px;
-      max-width: 250px;
       min-width: 0;
       box-sizing: border-box;
       text-overflow: ellipsis;