Limiting column widths

StanAccy

We are generating a table with Datatables 1.10 on the server side and sending the whole set of JS + data back to the client.
Its working very well, with one exception - column widths.

Right now, it looks like Datatables has run some algorithm to set column widths and its set the width property on each <th>.

Is there a way to hook in to the width generation and provide a max-width limit along with appropriate word-break / word-wrap options?

StanAccy

Could we add an additional value to the aoColumns like sWidthMax, or is it possible to provide our own implementation of the _fnCalculateColumnWidths() method?

We'd basically just copy that method and put a cap on max col width, allocating any excess space to the widest column, and also set word-wrap/word-break on each col.

StanAccy

This seems to work - comments please:

Index: datatable/resources/js/jquery.dataTables-1.10.4.js
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
--- datatable/resources/js/jquery.dataTables-1.10.4.js  (revision ee0c0ecdfa1ce93794733baa66391906317c374a)
+++ datatable/resources/js/jquery.dataTables-1.10.4.js  (revision )
@@ -4196,13 +4196,16 @@
                tmpTable.width( _fnStringToCss( total ) );
                table.style.width = _fnStringToCss( total );
            }
-   
+
            // Get the width of each column in the constructed table
            for ( i=0 ; i<visibleColumns.length ; i++ ) {
                column = columns[ visibleColumns[i] ];
                width = $(headerCells[i]).width();
-   
+
                if ( width ) {
+                   if( column.sMaxWidth && width > column.sMaxWidth ) {
+                       width = column.sMaxWidth;
+                   }
                    column.sWidth = _fnStringToCss( width );
                }
            }
@@ -9463,7 +9466,8 @@
         *  @default null
         */
        "sWidth": null,
+       "sMaxWidth": null,
-   
+
        /**
         * Width of the column when it was first "encountered"
         *  @type string

StanAccy

Now that Ive used this, I realized that I dont want to set this property on a per column basis, but on the entire table, as a single setting. Could this be done at a table wide level?