How to provide a minimum width for rich:orderingList control

Question

We use rich:orderingList with the following attributes listHeight="auto" listWidth="auto", this causes it to auto re-size and if there are smaller strings within the list, the list width is very small. We would prefer to have a minimum size for smaller strings and should change to auto for larger strings. How do we achieve this?

Answer 1

You can set the width each column separately and with EL expression set width either fixed size or auto.

So if for example your Item value is of type String

<rich:orderingList value="#{bean.simpleItems}" var="item" selection="#{bean.selection}" controlsType="button">
    <rich:column width="#{item.name.length > 100 ? 'auto' : '100px'}">
          <f:facet name="header">
                <h:outputText value="Car Name" />
           </f:facet>
           <h:outputText value="#{item.name}" />
     </rich:column>
 </rich:orderingList>

Another option is through columnClasses property of rich:orderingList. You can define in the backing bean the CSS classes considering the maximum width of each String, and using it as ELExperssion: columnClasses="#{myBean.columnWidth}"