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Do these features exist in the upcoming DataTable:
- Specify column width.
- Set table message where there is no data. Because an empty table with only header look too bad, a message on table body will be good.

Thanks.

datatable-column-widths modules adds support for specifying column widths, though it does so in an HTML table-esque way. It assigns a style width to the corresponding <col> element, but table dimensional calculations are not technically bound to this dimension. If content in a cell is wider than the configured width, the column will grow to accommodate. Similarly, if the table is assigned a width that will not account for all columns at their assigned widths, the column widths can be adjusted down to fit.

The API docs for the module talk about setting absolute widths: http://stage.yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/ap ... idths.html

The table message API has not been implemented yet for 3.5.0, but it will be. I'll likely be adding it next week.

Please try out 3.5.0pr2. DataTable is in there, and I'm updating the docs for it daily.
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/01/30/yui-3-5-0-pr2/

If you want to be even more up to date with DataTable, I'm pushing weekly builds to the gallery in the gallery-datatable-350-preview module.
http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/show/data ... 50-preview

And I'm usually hanging out in #yui on freenode on weekdays, so feel free to drop in and ask me any questions, give feedback, or make requests.