Feature Request: limit individual searchPanes sizes

tacman1123

I'd like to be able to control the height of the searchPanes components.

https://dt-demo.survos.com/congress/api_grid

Since gender, house (and party, not seen) are limited to a list of known sizes, I'd like to set the maxItems accordingly.

There's a lot of whitespace on the left for gender and house, and the longer state list is relegated to the same amount of space.

I love searchPanes, it's an amazing tool for browsing data.

allan

You could set the scrollCollapse option for the SearchPane DataTables.

Use searchPanes.dtOpts to set the options to pass to the pane DataTables.

Allan

colin

Here's the suggestion in action - you'll notice the Office pane is shorter than the others as it's compressed up.

The relevant code to do that, is:

    columnDefs: [{
      targets: ['_all'],
      searchPanes: {
        dtOpts: {
          scrollCollapse: true,
        }
      }
    }]

Colin

tacman1123

Very cool, thanks! This looks much better now: https://dt-demo.survos.com/congress/api_grid?gender=M&house=sen

Tiny css issue, the scrollbars don't seem to be necessary if the items all fit in a pane. Is there something I can do about that? A css tweak, or maybe I'm missing a css file?