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[Table] Auto-size column widths based on cell contents and a maximum width

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#1,863 opened on Dec 4, 2017

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Package: tableType: feature requesthelp wanted

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Description

Currently you have to manually set the sizes of each column, but we've had requests for the columns to auto-size based on their contents.

It'd be fine if this were a instance method function like the resize rows functions: http://blueprintjs.com/docs/#table-js.instance-methods.

It could either by a getColumnWidths function, or a autoSetColumnWidths(maxSize).

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Implement a method that calculates the maximum content width for each column and sets the column widths accordingly, respecting a maximum width parameter. Use existing table instance methods like 'resizeRowsAfter' as a reference.
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typescriptreact
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frontend
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2
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ReactTypeScript
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70