Column width ignored when column width in percent is used in extendeddatatable!!!

[vicky82]

Hi ,

I am not able to increase the width of column in extendeddatatable by using percent .

I tried with style also but it makes no difference .

Please help me out from this issue.

thanks in advance.

[mcmurdosound]

which version of richfaces are you using?

RF 3.3.x

or RF 4.x?

[vicky82]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your reply .

I am using richfaces 4.3 ,

Thanks

waquas ahmad

[mcmurdosound]

Due to a lack of proper documentation (or I didn't found it yet) I've looked into the sourcecode of the current stable version:

{code}

/**

     * @deprecated TODO Remove this method when width in relative units in columns will be implemented.

     * @param column

     * @return width

     */

    private String getColumnWidth(UIComponent column) {

        String width = (String) column.getAttributes().get("width");

        if (width == null || width.length() == 0 || width.indexOf("%") != -1) {

            width = "100px";

        }

        return width;

    }

{code}

this is from the ExtendedDataTableRenderer.java

So, if you have a "%" (and therefore relative width) value, it'll be replaced with "100px".

[mcmurdosound]

oh, it's a duplicate ;-)

https://community.jboss.org/thread/164708

and here's a jira-issue:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-11728

latest comment of this issue:

"""The attribute is already in place, but the EDT only respects "px" width for columns, not "%" width.  I experimented with enabling "%" widths, but this will require substantial changes to the client-side calculations that calculate the column widths across the multiple html tables used to implement the EDT.

I'm going to bump this to RF 5, where we will look at a re-write of the EDIT client-side code to work with the new standalone javascript widget architecture."""