[Vtigercrm-developers] List View Table layout question...

[Alan Lord]

No one any ideas on this?

Al

On 04/02/2021 09:43, Alan Lord wrote:
> See attached image.
> 
> I have a rather "picky" customer who would like to reduce some of the 
> wasted "white-space" in list view columns.
> 
> I've just spent a good deal of time looking in my browser's developer 
> tools at the layout below to try and find why some columns (highlighted 
> in image), where the field values are never going to be very wide, take 
> up so much horizontal space?
> 
> I can't find any min-width settings in stylesheets. I did however find a 
> <colgroup> with <col> tags that have hardcoded width style settings. 
> This suggests to me these are being calculated on-the-fly in the client 
> (browser) code and set by some bit of javascript somewhere...
> 
> Take for example the "Sales No." column (translated from "Sales Order 
> No" to see if changing if the width the title made any difference - it 
> didn't). This will always, for now at least only ever consist of two 
> letters followed by a hyphen followed by up to 5 digits, e.g.
> 
> XX-12345
> 
> And yet the column in the colgroup is
> 
> <col style="width: 156.333px;">
> 
> This is a similar issue with the column called "Rep.". This will only 
> ever be 2 characters,
> 
> The Rep col is set:
> 
> <col style="width: 106px;">
> 
> And the Site Postcode. A UK Postcode is pretty much always of the format:
> 
> XXYY YXX
> 
> Yet the Postcode column is also:
> 
> <col style="width:156.333px;">
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how I can tweak the widths of columns in this table 
> layout? Basically I would like to be able to reduce the width of some 
> columns so they better fit the contents, but I can't find where the 
> width is being controlled/calculated.
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Al
> 
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