I doubled checked this again ... If I set the grid width after hiding the column, then your solution works

$("#grid").jqGrid({}).setGridWidth(600, false);

Thanks!

Any other solutions?

$(..).jqGrid({}).setGridWidth(600,false)

Regards

Tony

With jqGrid 3.2.x, if I have a grid with 4 columns, each 150 pixels wide - and  the grid width is 600 pixels - when a column is hidden and the "shrinkToFit" is set to false, the grid width automatically reduces in size. With the 3.3 release, the grid does not resize smaller.

I think that an "expandToFit" would be a great feature ... also the ability to set column with to "auto", so that the width is based on the maximum text width within a column - like a convensional HTML table.

Ideas?

“tony said:

I think you should use 3.2.1.”

Sorry tony, i thought i posted a correction saying it was 3.2.1, not 3.2.  But i clearly didn't.

“And shrink to fit is used in oposite way - smal table width

many columns

Also do you have hidden columns?

Note that when shrink to fit is used the width of the hidden

columns is not included in the recalculation”

yeah -  i do have hidden columns.  Basically my problem was that the columns were being resized even though shrinkToFit isn't used - but in my case, like you say, the starting situation is that the total column width is less than the table width, so maybe shrinkToFit isn't relevant.  It's a bit confusing though, to me at least.  Maybe a new option, 'expandToFit' is needed? 

This works better for me, but it might not be to everyone's needs so i'm posting it here for your opinion. 
[code]

#grid.base.js - original version

#line 905 - 910
for(l=0;l<ts.p.colModel.length;l++) {
  if(!ts.p.shrinkToFit){
    ts.p.colModel[l].owidth = ts.p.colModel[l].width;
  }
  ts.p.colModel[l].width = Math.round(tblwidth/initwidth*ts.p.colModel[l].width);
}

#my modified version
if(ts.p.shrinkToFit){
  //resize all columns to fit the table
  for(l=0;l<ts.p.colModel.length;l++) {      
    ts.p.colModel[l].owidth = ts.p.colModel[l].width;
    ts.p.colModel[l].width = Math.round(tblwidth/initwidth*ts.p.colModel[l].width);
  }         
} else {
  //make only the last column wider to fit the table
  ts.p.colModel[ts.p.colModel.length - 1].width += (tblwidth - initwidth);
}

[/code]

Thanks - max

And shrink to fit is used in oposite way - smal table width

many columns

Also do you have hidden columns?

Note that when shrink to fit is used the width of the hidden

columns is not included in the recalculation

Regards

Tony

http://www.trirand.com/blog/?p.....post-1084/

But the circumstances are slightly different.

I have a width explicitly set for every column in my colModel, and i have no table width or shrinkToFit set, and that's fine - the table autosizes  to the combined width of the columns in colModel.  

However, i want the table to be a bit bigger than the combined width, so i set the 'width' option to be larger than the total width, and set shrinkToFit: false.  And then, it seems like shrinkToFit kicks in and my column widths break (it's really obvious that they break because i've filled each cell with textfields, and they don't match the new widths).  I tried setting the default value for shrinkToFit to false in the the source and it's the same.

In other words, if width is set, it always changes the widths of the individual columns, whether shrinkToFit is set or not.   This is using version 3.2

Thanks!

max