jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0 - Resizable Columns Widget

# tablesorter

## Resizable Columns Widget

### Flexible client-side table sorting

Back to documentation

NOTE!

- IMPORTANT If using jQuery versions older than 1.8, css box-sizing for the table MUST be set as `box-sizing: content-box;` or the resizable widget will not work properly.
- IMPORTANT The resize div ends up with a zero height if the header cell is empty. Please include at least a `&nbsp;` in the cell to allow it to render properly (ref).
- In v2.17.4, modified the bindings so the mouse move will now work on the document instead of only within the table header; this makes interaction consistent with what the user expects.
- In v2.15.12, added `resizable_widths` option which allows the setting of default & reset header widths.
- As of tablesorter version 2.9+, this widget can no longer be applied to versions of tablesorter prior to version 2.8.
- This widget now saves all changed column widths to local storage, or it falls back to a cookie! (v2.1)
- Column width saving requires the new "$.tablesorter.storage()" function included with the "jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js" file (v2.1).
- Right clicking (opening the context menu) will now reset the resized columns (v2.4).
- Holding down the shift key while resizing will force the last column or the table to resize instead of the next column, but only if the table is full width (v2.7.4).
- Prevent resizing a column by adding any of the following (they all do the same thing), set in order of priority (v2.7.4):
  - jQuery data `data-resizable="false"`.
  - metadata `class="{ resizable: 'false'}"`. This requires the metadata plugin.
  - headers option `headers : { 0 : { resizable : 'false' } }`.
  - header class name `class="resizable-false"`.
- Setting the `resizable` widget option to `false`, will only prevent the saving of resized columns, it has nothing to do with preventing a column from being resized.
- Because this widget uses jQuery's `closest()` (jQuery 1.3+) and `index()` (jQuery 1.4+) functions, it requires these newer versions of jQuery in order to work.
- In order to save the resized widths, jQuery version 1.4.1+ should be used because jQuery's `parseJson()` function is needed.
- Setting the `resizable_addLastColumn` widget option to `true` will add the resizable handle to the last column, see the "non-full" width table below (v2.9.0).

# Demo

### Non-full width table (individual columns resize)

First Name | Last Name | Age | Total | Discount | Date
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Peter | Parker | 28 | $9.99 | 20% | Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM
John | Hood | 33 | $19.99 | 25% | Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM
Clark | Kent | 18 | $15.89 | 44% | Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM
Bruce | Almighty | 45 | $153.19 | 44% | Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM
Bruce | Evans | 22 | $13.19 | 11% | Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM

### Full width table (use shift to force last column to resize)

First Name | Last Name | Age | Total | Discount | Date
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Peter | Parker | 28 | $9.99 | 20% | Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM
John | Hood | 33 | $19.99 | 25% | Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM
Clark | Kent | 18 | $15.89 | 44% | Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM
Bruce | Almighty | 45 | $153.19 | 44% | Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM
Bruce | Evans | 22 | $13.19 | 11% | Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM

# Page Header

    <!-- blue theme stylesheet with additional css styles added in v2.0.17 -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/theme.blue.css">
    <!-- tablesorter plugin -->
    <script src="../js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script>

    <!-- tablesorter widget file - loaded after the plugin -->
    <script src="../js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js"></script>

# CSS

# Javascript

# HTML

    <!-- The Age column is set to not be resizable -->
    <table class="tablesorter" style="width:auto">
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>First Name</th>
          <th>Last Name</th>
          <th class="resizable-false">Age</th>
          <th>Total</th>
          <th>Discount</th>
          <th>Date</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        ...
      </tbody>
    </table>

Next up: Applying the save sort widget ››