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Grid with too many columns in fixed width website

I am using Telerik's Radgrid for a website. Often the grid columns exceed the available width, and extend outside the main content area (fixed width).

So what are my options for presenting very wide grids. horizontal scroll bars just look ugly on my site

Solution

  • Your choices are a combination of the following:

    1. Smaller fonts
    2. Consolidate some cells to have more than one row (e.g. if you have a "start date" and "end date" put the start date on top and the end date on the bottom.
    3. Widen the window
    4. Make some cells appear conditionally (based on user-defined filters). Maybe the most frequently used cells appear normally and a checkbox unhides the less frequently used cells or groups of cells.
    5. Allow horizontal scrolling
    6. Make the window a fluid width
    7. Popup data in a floating <div> via javascript instead of putting it in a column

    Am I missing anything?