I had a similar situation, albeit not exactly the same. I initially show the ember-table component in a 'light' view, with one width, but the user can toggle between that and a 'full' view, with a larger width (as implied by its container). The toggle to larger width would size the container correctly but the portion of the ember-table not visible in the light view would contain only blank space, not cell contents nor borders, nor column headers. It's as if it never re-rendered after the container's dimensions changed.
The solution I found was to force a re-render of the table manually on the basis of an external property I would change when this light/full mode was toggled by the user. To achieve this, I extended the table component as shown:
export default Ember.Table.EmberTableComponent.extend({
// exposes a hook to resize (i.e. rerender) the table when it would otherwise
// not have been detected
resizeTriggered: function() {
this.handleWindowResize();
}.observes('resizeTrigger')
});
Since I'm using ember-cli, I saved the above under components/my-table-component.js.
Having done this, I would then include the table in my template like this:
{{my-table-component
columnsBinding="columns"
contentBinding="content"
resizeTrigger=resizeTriggerProperty
}}
Now, I simply update the controller's resizeTriggerProperty to any (new) value every time I want to ensure that the table re-renders. In my case, I would set it in the course of an action (e.g. MyRouteController):
actions: {
triggerResize: function() {
this.set('resizeTriggerProperty', new Date().getTime());
}
}
