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Word wrap in dashboards

DavidKxx
Contributor

When I'm displaying a Table-style visualization in a notebook dashboard, is there a setting I can apply to a text column so that it automatically word-wraps text longer than the display width of the column?

For example, in the following dashboard display, I have clicked the pointer symbol in row 2 to make the entire string visible.  I want the notebook to do this automatically for all cells, or for all cells in a specific column.

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filipniziol
New Contributor III

Hi @DavidKxx ,

That is quite similar question to one about displaying array as bullet list. 
Since you were successful in implementing displayHTML, what do you think about doing similar in this case?

 

# Sample DataFrame with long text
data = [
    (1, 'This is a short text.'),
    (2, 'This is a much longer text that would normally be truncated in a standard table visualization, but we want it to wrap automatically within the cell without needing to expand the cell manually.')
]

df = spark.createDataFrame(data, ['id', 'text'])

# Collect data to the driver
rows = df.collect()

# Start building the HTML string
table_html = '''
<style>
table {
    width: 100%;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}
th, td {
    border: 1px solid black;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 8px;
    word-wrap: break-word;
    word-break: break-word;
    max-width: 200px; /* Adjust the max-width as needed */
}
</style>
<table>
    <tr>
        <th>id</th>
        <th>text</th>
    </tr>
'''

# Add table rows
for row in rows:
    table_html += '<tr>'
    table_html += f'<td>{row["id"]}</td>'
    table_html += f'<td>{row["text"]}</td>'
    table_html += '</tr>'

table_html += '</table>'

displayHTML(table_html)

 

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