Hidden Containers

If you initialize a Grid inside a hidden container, the Grid may not adjust its layout correctly.

For example, when you apply scrolling, virtual scrolling, or locked columns and initialize the Grid in a hidden container, its vertical layout will not be correctly adjusted because the JavaScript size calculations do not work for elements with a display:none style. For more information on the supported scroll modes by the Grid, refer to the section on scrolling.

You can identify that the Grid is initialized in a hidden state if any of the following symptoms occur:

• The Grid appears smaller than expected.
• The scrollable data area overflows the bottom border of the Grid.
• The vertical scrollbar is not visible even though virtual scrolling is enabled.
• Frozen columns are too narrow and non-frozen columns are not visible.
• The pager may not appear or may be the smallest responsive pager instead of the full one
• The reordering of the rows may not work as expected.

To handle the behavior that is related to the initialization of the Grid inside a hidden container, use any of the following approaches:

• Delay the initialization of the Grid or change the order in which various Kendo UI components are initialized, so that the Grid is initialized after its element becomes visible.
• Execute the resize method of the Grid after the component becomes visible.

• Instead of setting an overall height for the Grid in its configuration, define the height for the scrollable data area only. In this case, no height calculations are made. This approach is applicable only if frozen columns and virtual scrolling are not used.

    #GridID .k-grid-content
    {
        height: 270px;
    }
  

• Fetch the data source instead of calling the resize() method. This approach is applicable if virtual scrolling is enabled and the Kendo UI version is older than 2014.3.1119.

  Note that Grids that are rendered inside a container component, such as a Kendo UI for jQuery TabStrib, PanelBar, or Window, have to be resized once the container is visible and its animation completed.

    $("#GridID").data("kendoGrid").dataSource.fetch();
  

KB Articles on Hidden Containers

• Initializing the Grid inside a PanelBar
• Initializing the Grid inside a TabStrib
• Initializing the Grid inside a Window
• Find Out More in the Knowledge Base

See Also

• Scroll Modes of the Grid
• JavaScript API Reference of the Grid