Currently, if there are two or more sections on a data page (for example, the first section with 2 columns and the second section with 5 columns) then the width of elements on the data page is affected by the width of elements in different sections.

I suggest the default width be 1 / # of columns in the section regardless of other sections included in the data page. For the example above, section one would be 50% each, and section two would be 20% each.