[GH-ISSUE #119] Question: Is there a way to set a fixed width to table columns? #91

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opened 2026-03-04 01:01:52 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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Originally created by @3cb on GitHub (May 22, 2018).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/119

I'm trying to use tview to display streaming price data from websockets in a table and the text strings have variable length which makes the columns shift back and forth when I update and redraw the table. Is there a way to fix this without manually adding empty spaces to the text strings on each update?

Apologies if I have missed it in the documentation.

Originally created by @3cb on GitHub (May 22, 2018). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/119 I'm trying to use tview to display streaming price data from websockets in a table and the text strings have variable length which makes the columns shift back and forth when I update and redraw the table. Is there a way to fix this without manually adding empty spaces to the text strings on each update? Apologies if I have missed it in the documentation.

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@rivo commented on GitHub (May 23, 2018):

You haven't missed it. There's no fixed width parameter for table columns at the moment. I know this is what you're trying to avoid but you could do the following to pad your strings:

cell.SetText(fmt.Sprintf("%-10s",mystr))

@rivo commented on GitHub (May 23, 2018): You haven't missed it. There's no fixed width parameter for table columns at the moment. I know this is what you're trying to avoid but you could do the following to pad your strings: ```go cell.SetText(fmt.Sprintf("%-10s",mystr)) ```

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@3cb commented on GitHub (May 23, 2018):

Thanks for the info and the library.

@3cb commented on GitHub (May 23, 2018): Thanks for the info and the library.