Material-table: How change width of the columns?

Question

I'm using the Material Table library that is officially recommended by Google Material UI as a data table library and having troubles with configuring the width of columns.

Column width property is working until our content fits the cell: CodeSandbox Is there any solution to fix that?

Answer 1

If you want to set specific width to each column, I believe that you need to specify the option tableLayout: 'fixed' . The docs refers to it like this:

tableLayout | auto or fixed | To make columns width algorithm auto or fixed

So your code could be something like this:

 const tableColumns = [
    { title: "Lorem ipsum", field: "lorem", width: "10%" }, // fixed column width
    { title: "Name", field: "name", width: "80%" },
    { title: "Custom status", field: "customStatus", width: "10%" }]


 <MaterialTable
    tableRef={tableRef}
    columns={tableColumns}
    data={tableData}
    onRowClick={(evt, selectedRow) =>
      setSelectedRow(selectedRow.tableData.id)
    }
    title="Remote Data Example"
    options={{
      rowStyle: rowData => ({
        backgroundColor:
          selectedRow === rowData.tableData.id ? "#EEE" : "#FFF"
      }),
      tableLayout: "fixed"
    }}
  />

Here is the sandbox.

Good luck!