angular-ui/ui-grid

ui.grid.resizeColumns: Option to dynamically resize columns based on content

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#3,521 opened on May 18, 2015

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help wantedtype: enhancement

Description

A grid-wide option, column-wide option and a public API method to resize columns based on the contents would be really nice.

It looks quite weird to have text cut off on some columns and some columns having too much space. Of course this can be fixed by manually setting the widths, but in my application I can have many different grids with different kinds of data so it would be nice to have this kind of option that works when the grid is resized.

I found that this is implemented in the double click event, but there is no option to enable it per column or per grid or to call it manually.

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Tech stack
javascriptangularhtmlcss
Domain
frontend
Issue type
feature
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3
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1-2 days
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clear
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AngularJSui grid basicsJavaScript
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35
Research direction
Examine the existing double click resize event in the ui grid source code (likely in src/js/core/factories/Grid.js or GridColumn.js). Determine how to add per column and per grid options for automatic content based resizing, and expose a public API method to trigger it. Refer to issue comments for any suggested implementation details.