Remove Trailing Space When Resizing Grid Columns

Environment

Product	Progress® Kendo UI® Grid for jQuery
Product Version	Created with version 2018.1.117

Description

How can I avoid the rendering of the blank space after the last column when the columns are resized to less than the width of a resizable Grid?

Solution

Add an empty column to the Grid. You can manually calculate its width, so that it fills the available space when the columns are resized. If the columns are wider than the Grid, the empty column is hidden.

<style>
    .k-grid {
        width: 700px;
    }
</style>

<div id="grid1"></div>

<script>
    function getMasterColumnsWidth(tbl) {
        var result = 0;
        tbl.children("colgroup").find("col").not(":last").each(function (idx, element) {
            result += parseInt($(element).outerWidth() || 0, 10);
        });

        return result;
    }

    function adjustLastColumn() {
        var grid = $("#grid1").data("kendoGrid");
        var contentDiv = grid.wrapper.children(".k-grid-content");
        var masterHeaderTable = grid.thead.parent();
        var masterBodyTable = contentDiv.children("table");
        var gridDivWidth = contentDiv.width() - kendo.support.scrollbar();

        masterHeaderTable.width("");
        masterBodyTable.width("");

        var headerWidth = getMasterColumnsWidth(masterHeaderTable),
            lastHeaderColElement = grid.thead.parent().find("col").last(),
            lastDataColElement = grid.tbody.parent().children("colgroup").find("col").last(),
            delta = parseInt(gridDivWidth, 10) - parseInt(headerWidth, 10);

        if (delta > 0) {
            delta = Math.abs(delta);
            lastHeaderColElement.width(delta);
            lastDataColElement.width(delta);
        } else {
            lastHeaderColElement.width(0);
            lastDataColElement.width(0);
        }

        contentDiv.scrollLeft(contentDiv.scrollLeft() - 1);
        contentDiv.scrollLeft(contentDiv.scrollLeft() + 1);
    }


    $("#grid1").kendoGrid({
        dataSource: {
            type: "odata",
            transport: {
                read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Employees"
            },
            pageSize: 6,
            serverPaging: true,
            serverSorting: true
        },
        height: 430,
        pageable: true,
        resizable: true,
        columnResize: adjustLastColumn,
        dataBound: adjustLastColumn,
        columns: [{
            field: "FirstName",
            title: "First Name",
            width: "100px"
        }, {
            field: "LastName",
            title: "Last Name",
            width: "150px"
        }, {
            field: "Country",
            width: "100px"
        }, {
            field: "City",
            width: "100px"
        }, {
            field: "Title",
            width: "200px"
        }, {
            template: "&nbsp;"
        }]
    });
</script>