Utilizing Scroller DataTable extension with `datatable(fillContainer = TRUE, ...)`

[jthompson-arcus]

The DataTable Scroller extension does not work correctly when using datatable(fillContainer = TRUE, ...). I was able to figure out a work around for my issue utilizing the "scrollResize" plugin. Stackoverflow issue and workaround can be found here. Below is a toy example showing the issue. When the table loads, everything looks okay, but after you start scrolling the table gets reduced to only 9 rows. This is true regardless of the value given to the scrollY option. You will also notice that the pagination gets reduced to only one record (i.e. "Showing 44 to 44 of 150 entries").

library(shiny)
library(DT)

ui <- fluidPage(
  div(
    style = "height: 500px",
    DT::DTOutput("table", height = "100%")
  )
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  output$table <- DT::renderDT({
    DT::datatable(
      iris,
      options = list(
        scrollY = 200,
        scroller = TRUE,
        deferRender = TRUE
      ),
      fillContainer = TRUE,
      extensions = "Scroller",
    )
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

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[alanfarahani]

I wanted to add that I would have opened an identical issue, as I have encountered this as well.