Restricting column width

[icai]

Hi,

I have to restrict column width to certain length. It always resizes based on data. I tried to restrict the column width by width and style attribute on rich:column. Nothing seems to work though.

So I thought of checking the length of string to be printed in rich:column. Whenever length is less than 30, I append
30-string.length() spaces.

But when string is displayed on UI all spaces are truncated.

Can someone suggest how can I fix column width to 30 characters?

Thanks in advance!!

[shadowcreeper]

I surround my td contents with a div something like this:

<rich:column>
 <div style="width: 30px; overflow: hidden;">${data}</div>
</rich:column>

[nbelaevski]

Use non-breaking space instead of common space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space