Understanding JQGrid column width behaviors

Question

I have a tree grid with many columns, all with specified width. And boy, it looks terrible since headers are out of sync with columns below, even if I have short data in them.

Answer 1

I had the same issue. It turned out to be the existing, site default, css definitions for padding on table cells. Make sure your padding is consistent between your th and td tags. I put a div around the grid with a class of div, and added the following to my CSS:

.grid td, .grid th {
    padding: 1pt 1ex !important;
}