When embedding a CircuitLab schematic the schematic is scaled to a constant width regardless of the complexity of the diagram. This causes questions and answers with multiple schematics to become unwieldy, sometimes creating a perverse incentive to not illustrate a circuit with a schematic diagram.
This exact issue was asked about almost three years ago, and no notable improvement has emerged. Is there anything that can be done to either fix the issue or work around it?
I often put a small section of wire on the right hand side to have the auto-scaling work out to a reasonable sized diagram.
Another trick is to place some small text in the lower right corner (take it as a sort of signature, if you want, e.g. your initials).
You can put enough horizontal space between that text and your actual circuit so that the result scales well and doesn't appear huge.
The workaround is simple. Design your schematic wide, not tall. Circuitlab has a minimum whitespace/deadspace around the objects that it uses to create the image. And since Stackexchange scales an image to the maximum width of the post table size, simply making the image long-wise will prevent that.
