Adjustable final column width setting #22
Description
At the moment, MarkdownTableFormatter formats Markdown tables so that the final or right-most column is as wide as the widest content.
Having configurable options for the cells in the right-most column would be useful.
For example, a setting could be added so that if the data in a cell in the right-most column:
- Is narrower than or the same width as the header, the cell width matches the header width.
- Is wider than the header, the cell is as wide as the content.
If you assume that a table in a Markdown file is already formatted this way, a setting like this would allow adding wide rows to the table and using the MarkdownTableFormatter package without the possibility that an entire table would be reformatted.
For pure readability, the current behavior makes sense. However, in Git-based systems with diff views where Markdown is often authored, reformatting the entire table for additional rows makes less sense.
Example
This is an example table using the current behavior:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|:---------------|:---------------|:---------------|
| Row 1 | Row 1 | Row 1 |
| Row 2 | Row 2 | Row 2 |
| Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider |
| Row 4 | Row 4 | Row 4 |This is what a table would look like if the new setting was available:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|:---------------|:---------------|:---------|
| Row 1 | Row 1 | Row 1 |
| Row 2 | Row 2 | Row 2 |
| Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider |
| Row 4 | Row 4 | Row 4 |Imagine you wanted to add the following row:
| Row 5 | Row 5 | Row 5 with a really wide cell |With the existing behavior, the entire table becomes:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|:---------------|:---------------|:------------------------------|
| Row 1 | Row 1 | Row 1 |
| Row 2 | Row 2 | Row 2 |
| Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider |
| Row 4 | Row 4 | Row 4 |
| Row 5 | Row 5 | Row 5 with a really wide cell |That triggers a change on every row.
With the new setting, the table would be:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|:---------------|:---------------|:---------|
| Row 1 | Row 1 | Row 1 |
| Row 2 | Row 2 | Row 2 |
| Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider | Row 3 is wider |
| Row 4 | Row 4 | Row 4 |
| Row 5 | Row 5 | Row 5 with a really wide cell |