I have a formpanel which contains textfield items. Here is a fiddle demonstrating my current screen
Is there anyway to make the width of the textfield take up less than the entire width of the column? Basically, I want the columns stay at the sizes they are (2 columns at 50% each), but I do not want the textfield taking up that entire space of the column.
Can this be achieved using a column layout like I have now?
I think you just use Ext.layout.container.Column wrong way.
In your example each textfield working as column itself and total columnWidth is 1.5.
columnWidths must always add up to 1 (or 100%) when added together, otherwise your layout may not render as expected.
You have to use any container component as column and add textfields to this containers.
Check this simple example.