Max/Min length padding

[Akkuma]

Currently there isn't anyway to easily pad a number. For instance if I want my percentages to be at least 3 numbers, so that they are all roughly the same length, there isn't a way to do that easily. '0.0%' will result in xx.x% and x.x%.

[baer]

Is this what you're trying to do? Appending more 0's will pad a number.

numeral(12).format("$00.00")
-> "$12.00"
numeral(12).format("00.00%")
-> "1200.00%"

[Akkuma]

No, that is not what I'm trying to do at least if I can recall properly, considering the issue is 10 months old. What I may have been trying to do this:

numeral(.1).format('0.0%')
-> '10.0%'
numeral(.01).format('0.0%')
-> '1.0%'

What I want is the character count between those two to be exactly the same, ie 10.0% and 1.00%. It helps make displaying them in a list look much cleaner and consistent. If you add an extra 0 it'll differ the two results. Obviously

[baer]

I don't think I've ever seen this used - are there other UIs have you seen that pad numbers in this way?

[Akkuma]

Yes, I have seen UIs do this that don't want a zig zag look on their tables. http://josscrowcroft.github.io/accounting.js/ supports something like this via formatColumn, but chooses to implement it in a different fashion.

[adamwdraper]

Done