Covalent: Why is the min column width arbitrarily hard coded to 100px?
I am trying to build a table where I want a column to be fixed at 60px. So I looked at the API and saw that I can pass the width as a number. Didn't work.
Then I saw I could pass an object {min: NUMBER, max: NUMBER} for the column configuration and I hoped that would do it for me. No! It was always at least 100px.
I went here - https://github.com/Teradata/covalent/blob/develop/src/platform/core/data-table/data-table.component.ts#L972-L975 and I realized that any column declaring width less than 100 px is being set to 100px. Which is weird.
Right now, I can't possibly set the width of any column narrower than 100px :(
praveenpuglia
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100 is the default, try setting width to something smaller than 100. To be clear, set width specially not min or max
kyleledbetter
on 29 Sep 2017
I tried that but even then I get a minimum of 100px.
praveenpuglia
on 29 Sep 2017
Can you post a stackblitz or plunker?
kyleledbetter
on 29 Sep 2017
I noticed the same issue when I put in smaller values than 100px.
When investigating, I found another issue, but I don't know if it is related, so I will comment it here:
The width: {min: 300, max: 500} object when defining my columns, the max-width is applied as the min-width on the element.
Here is the element style from Google Chrome.
I will try and continue on how to fix this if. It seems that the issue first came from this PR. https://github.com/Teradata/covalent/pull/859. Before this, columns would expand by width and height naturally depending on the content in the grid.
dubemarcantoine
on 29 Sep 2017
@dubemarcantoine is there a plunker template?
praveenpuglia
on 29 Sep 2017
I did not do one yet, I'll do it later today/tomorrow after school!
dubemarcantoine
on 29 Sep 2017
I am sorry. I wanted to tag @kyleledbetter :) Is there a plunker template i can use?
praveenpuglia
on 29 Sep 2017
The min/max is indented to work that way, because table cells are really stubborn when trying to set the widths.. we calculate the needed width and set it to both min/max to ensure it works properly.
The 100px one was so we could have a min width, but i do agree 100px seems really random and you should be able to override it. A fix for this will be addressed https://github.com/Teradata/covalent/pull/895
Btw, the plnkr URL is in the issue template.
emoralesb05
on 1 Oct 2017
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I noticed the same issue when I put in smaller values than 100px.
When investigating, I found another issue, but I don't know if it is related, so I will comment it here:
The
width: {min: 300, max: 500}object when defining my columns, the max-width is applied as the min-width on the element.Here is the element style from Google Chrome.
I will try and continue on how to fix this if. It seems that the issue first came from this PR. https://github.com/Teradata/covalent/pull/859. Before this, columns would expand by width and height naturally depending on the content in the grid.