Automatic column width adjustment (AutoFit)

[nevrome]

Is there an option to adjust the column width according to the column name or according to the longest entry in a column? In MS Excel this feature is called AutoFit I think.

If no: Could you imagine adding this feature or are there some technical/visual constraints?

[thinkh]

Thanks for your request, we'll have to look into this. It might be difficult for all column types and visualizations (renderer). Probably we might need to set a minimum width (e.g., bar charts of numerical columns).

Would you expect that the autofit considers also the width of the header title (or just the row content)?

[nevrome]

Thank you for considering this!

A minimum width is probably required. Maybe it's even better to keep the fixed width for numerical columns with charts.

I believe the autofit should consider both the header and the content of a column as a default. From a user perspective it would be perfect to control this behavior with a high level configuration option.

I would love to offer a PR, but my Javascript/Typescript knowledge is pretty much nonexistent. I'm personally using lineupjs in a R shiny app with the R API.

[eric-kimbrel]

This feature would be great, but while its missing is there anyway to adjust column widths via the javascript api?

[sgratzl]

when building the ranking you can specify the width: https://github.com/lineupjs/lineupjs/blob/790a0bbd36906539c27bae08ce517c27885ae56a/src/builder/column/ColumnBuilder.ts#L66

in an existing ranking you find the right column and then call https://github.com/lineupjs/lineupjs/blob/790a0bbd36906539c27bae08ce517c27885ae56a/src/model/Column.ts#L289