Grid Auto Resize

Description

Almost all grids from the demos are using the auto-resize feature, and the feature does what its name suggest, it resizes the grid to fill entirely within the container it is contained. It also automatically resizes when the user changes its browser size.

Demo

with Inline Editor

Demo Page / Demo Component

Usage

All you need to do is enable the Grid Option enableAutoResize: true and provide necessary information in the autoResize, at minimum you should provide your container name.

View

<div id="demo-container">
   <angular-slickgrid gridId="grid1"
              [columnDefinitions]="columnDefinitions"
              [gridOptions]="gridOptions"
              [dataset]="dataset">
    </angular-slickgrid>
</div>

this.columnDefinitions = [
  // ... 
];

this.gridOptions = {
  autoResize: {
    containerId: 'demo-container'
  },
  enableAutoResize: true
};

AutoResize Options

There are multiple options you can pass to the autoResize in the Grid Options, you can see them all in the autoResizeOption.interface

Global autoResize options

If you always use the same configuration over and over (for example your container is always the same name), then I suggest you to look at the Global Options. This is the recommended way of using the auto-resize.

Troubleshooting

Why is my grid not resizing?

1. Have you put your grid in a <div> container referenced in your autoResize grid options?
2. I have the container defined but it still doesn't resize, why?

Possible reason

This feature uses window.resize event and if you change the size of your DIV programmatically, it will not change the size of your grid, mainly because that action did not trigger a window.resize event. However to circumvent this issue, you can call the auto-resize of the grid manually with the ResizerService. For example, we change the DIV CSS classes to use a different Bootstrap container size, that won't trigger an event and we have to manually call the resize, below is the code to do that.

  angularGridReady(angularGrid: AngularGridInstance) {
    this.angularGrid = angularGrid;
  }

  closeSidebar() {
    this.isSidebarOpen = false;
    this.angularGrid.resizerService.resizeGrid();
  }

  openSidebar() {
    this.isSidebarOpen = true;
    this.angularGrid.resizerService.resizeGrid();
  }