Certain text breaks column resizing

[StanLoganParticipant]

Hi,

We have some text in one of our fields that is displaying in the grid. It is a string field. When this text appears, the column will not resize correctly when grid.jqxGrid(‘autoresizecolumns’) is called. The column is sized much smaller than necessary, but I can’t see any logic behind the size it ends up with. Here are the contents of the field:

				document.write("<");<xml><<<> </xml>
				

This text was used specifically to stress test our old home-grown grid. Hopefully, there is a way to allow this to work correctly.

Thanks,
Stan

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Stan,

The auto-size feature calculates the column’s size based on what the browser returns as Width for the specific text. It’s not perfect and that is the reason you can apply manually a width to a column.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

[StanLoganParticipant]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the reply. This text appears only in one row for that column. The other rows have text that is also larger than the calculated column width. I understand that things are not always perfect, but even if the cell with the text returns a smaller width value, why would that affect the final column width when the other rows have values that should make the column wider?

I can live with this issue, since our users are unlikely to have text like this, and they can still resize the column manually. I just thought it indicated a problem that you might like to address.

Stan

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

We’ll test such scenario for a future update. Thanks for feedback.

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