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OptionsColumn.FixedWidth Property

Gets or sets whether this column keeps a constant width when a Grid changes its size or Best Fit operations are called. End-users are still allowed to resize this column.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraGrid.Columns

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v24.2.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.Grid, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

#Declaration

[DefaultValue(false)]
[XtraSerializableProperty]
public bool FixedWidth { get; set; }

#Property Value

Type Default Description
Boolean false

true if the column keeps its width; otherwise, false.

#Property Paths

You can access this nested property as listed below:

Object Type Path to FixedWidth
GridColumn
.OptionsColumn .FixedWidth

#Remarks

The code below illustrates how to lock the “Product Name” column’s width.

colProductName.OptionsColumn.FixedWidth = true;

If there is a Band that contains only one column, and you want to lock this column’s width, enable the Band OptionsBand.FixedWidth property instead.

Users are free to resize any Grid columns at runtime, including columns with fixed widths. To lock or limit column widths at runtime, use of the following approaches:

See Columns to learn more.

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the FixedWidth property.

Note

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