How to make a script for expand column width

Question

Hi experts,
Is that possible to make a script for expand the column width aim to let the columns show up all the overset text?
Regard
John

Answer 1

Hi John,
As Uwe advised it would be wise to put a stop on any while loop in case the condition is never fulfilled which would mean the script will break.
Without knowing what specifically you are working on you could make the below amendments to do this.
myTables = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
for (var t = 0; t < myTables.length; t++) {
    BE_resizeColumnsToFitContents(myTables[t], 200);
function BE_resizeColumnsToFitContents(tableToEdit, tableMaxWidth) {
    for (var i = 0; i < tableToEdit.columns.length; i++) {
        while (tableToEdit.columns[i].overflows === true) {
            if (tableToEdit.width < tableMaxWidth) {
                tableToEdit.columns[i].width += 1;
                tableToEdit.columns[i].recompose();
            else {
                alert("Column " + i + " contents too large for column.");
                break;
I won't put any extra functions in this because it might not be what you're after. To use this you just define the table width as a second argument to the function (but you could change this parameter to something else, like page, column or cell width). And, if you want to have a fail action you just put it in the 'else' part.
Brett