can't change active_admin column width

Question

I am using the github version of active_Admin as can be seen from my gemfile:

gem 'activeadmin', github: 'activeadmin'

I am trying to change the column width of a column in an index table. According to the documentation found here , it should be done like this:

column :notes, min_width: "400px"
column :notes, max_width: "800px"

However, the code above is not working. The column is 100px. How do I get this to work?

Answer 1

https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin/issues/4091

Unfortunately max_width only exists on "pages" (ie register_page), and not on "resources" (ie register). Instead you can do this:

.col-<column_name> { max-width: 200px; }

Answer 2

Try this:

columns do
  column max_width: "800px", min_width: "400px" do
    span "notes contents goes here"
  end
end

See Custom Column Widths section from the documentation .

Update (tested and working!)

If the above way does not work for you, you can still do it the following way:

column :notes do
   div(class: "notes") do 
     span "notes contents goes here"
   end  
end 

Define the css rule in app/assets/stylesheets/active_admin.css.scss file:

div.notes { width: 500px; }

Answer 3

This works today

index do
  style do
    [".col-name{width: 130px}"].join(' ')
  end
  column :name
  actions
end

Active admin uses this gem. https://activeadmin.github.io/arbre/

Above puts the style right into the HTML. That's okay because it works.

I mean your HTML will be ugly, but it works.