Setting height on tabulator has no effect

[TymekDev]

I ran into some inconsistency when it comes to setting table's height. According to the docs, height can be set via tabulator arguments:

tabulator(
  data,
  height = "fit-content"
)

However, that doesn't work—the height is set to the default value from tabulator_options (311px).

Instead, wrapping it in tabulator_options seems to help:

tabulator(
  data,
  tabulator_options(
    height = "fit-content"
  )
)

On that note, is there a particular reason why 311px is the default? From the testing I did, fit-content seems to behave better. The table inside a Shiny app isn't cropped when it's set to fit-content.

[crazycapivara]

@TymekDev The height param you can set in the tabulator function is different from the one you set via table_options.
The first one defines the height of the htmlwidget container whereas the second one is for the table itself as defind in Tabulator JS package. But I have to admit that this is confusing.

We do not use the fit-content setting by default, because for large tables it means long loading times and the contents does not fit to the page anymore. The value of 311px itself was just chosen, because it is the default value of the JS lib :-)