Tuesday, October 12, 2010

TableLayout columns equal width

Something easy like columns of equal width in a TableLayout shouldn't be difficult. It's not, but there is a trick to getting the desired layout. layout_width="0dip" and layout_weight="1" tags must be set in your XML layout. Here's an example:

<tablelayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:stretchColumns="1">

    <TableRow>
      <!-- Column 1 -->
      <TextView
         android:id="@+id/tbl_txt1"
         android:layout_width="0dip"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:background="@color/red"
         android:textColor="@color/white"
         android:padding="10dip"
         android:layout_margin="4dip"
         android:layout_weight="1"
         android:text="Column 1" />
         
      <!-- Column 2 -->
      <TextView
         android:id="@+id/tbl_txt2"
         android:layout_width="0dip"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:background="@color/red"
         android:textColor="@color/white"
         android:padding="10dip"
         android:layout_margin="4dip"
         android:layout_weight="1"
         android:text="Column 2" />
         
      <!-- Column 3 -->
      <TextView
         android:id="@+id/tbl_txt3"
         android:layout_width="0dip"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:background="@color/red"
         android:textColor="@color/white"
         android:padding="10dip"
         android:layout_margin="4dip"
         android:layout_weight="1"
         android:text="Column 3" />
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>

37 comments:

  1. Best of the best! You do not know how many people are searching for this! Thanks a lot.

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  2. Perfect! width=0 and weight=1 did the job. Also without stretchColumns="1".

    Many thanks
    Hans

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  3. thanks a million !!! Been Stuck on this layout problem for awhile...I had try many combinations with nested layouts...

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  4. this seems to only work if the text in the TextViews is the same width. if not, the table does fill the width of the view, but the column widths seem to be proportional to their contained text widths (if that makes any sense :-) )

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  5. That is great !!! Thx

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  6. I just use this tip!
    Thanks a lot!!!

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  7. Works perfect... Thanks a lot... :)

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  8. Wow... this is grate. lot of problems solved. Thanks a lot

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  9. thx man... that is exactly what I was looking for! :)

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  10. Hi

    Am creating Textview in Runtime. For this i need to set the columns width as fixed one. i don't have have any Textview inside my table layout

    TableRow tR = new TableRow(this);
    //adding textViews to each Table cell
    TextView tV_txt1 = new TextView(this);
    TextView tV_txt2 = new TextView(this);
    TextView tV_txt3 = new TextView(this);

    for this how can i fix the width..?

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  11. This is simple but a guaranteed treasure!

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  12. I have text views with borders. So when I do this, there are jagged borders.....how do i solve that

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  14. Excellent......... post..... Thanks... a lot.. It helped me very much...

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  16. thanks dude ! you save my life !

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  17. Thank you so much for this! It's perfect!

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  18. Awesome. Thanks. Worked perfectly for me :)

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  19. Thanks.

    was stupid enough to invoke a relative layout inside table row and gave layout_weight.never knew that layout weight works in tablerow
    Thanks a ton

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  20. Thanks God! You saved my life man!

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