Bokeh TableColumns formatting to be at least as wide as the widest row

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1

Hello,

I am using a DataTable to display a large amount of data but I am running into the issue where the data gets cut off -

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It would be great if using the HTMLTemplateFormatter or properties on the DataTable/TableColumn I could make the table take up as much space as it needs.

I’ve tried just setting an arbitrary min-width on the cell itself within the column with:

TableColumn(title=f"<span class=cl1>{col}</span>", field=f"{col}_{cl1}", width=800,
                                   formatter=HTMLTemplateFormatter(
                                       template="<span style='min-width: 800px'><%= value %></span>")))

However this seems to have no effect.

Thanks!
Ryan

2

Set the width of the DataTable instance, it’s set to 600 by default. Also look into the sizing_mode attribute.

Regarding making the table take as much space as possible - I don’t think it’s possible or at least feasible. Bokeh uses SlickGrid for its table widget, and I couldn’t find any way to make it an unconstrained table.

3

Ah so there’s no way to set the DataTable width to be ‘the minimum required to fit all the columns/rows’/

4

Exactly. You can compute it yourself somehow and set it. Can’t help with that though.

5

Gotcha, thanks for the info!