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Column resizing doesn't respect clientWidth, bad experience with limited width tables #5870

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Description

TanStack Table version

8.20.6

Framework/Library version

18.3

Describe the bug and the steps to reproduce it

Take the official full width resizable table example
https://tanstack.com/table/v8/docs/framework/react/examples/full-width-resizable-table

With limited screen space, grow a column, and then grow it some more.
You'll notice that the state now has a ridiculous amount of width, while the column is still fairly small visually.
This means that to size it down_ you now need to drag the handle left a lot without much result.

The solution would be to detect that dragging is over and set the column size to the header element's clientWidth, but I'm not entirely sure how to achieve that.

Your Minimal, Reproducible Example - (Sandbox Highly Recommended)

https://tanstack.com/table/v8/docs/framework/react/examples/full-width-resizable-table

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Do you intend to try to help solve this bug with your own PR?

No, because I do not have time to dig into it

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  • I understand that if my bug cannot be reliable reproduced in a debuggable environment, it will probably not be fixed and this issue may even be closed.

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