Making dojo datagrid columns non-resizable and unsortable

When dealing with grids of data in dojo I often find myself wanting to manage the control of the individual columns quite specifically, disabling the user resize ability, or click-to-sort on headers.

Here are two ways these two functions can be achieved on a dojox.grid.EnhancedGrid in a _Templated widget.

Disabling resize is quite easy to manage, when you know how. The column headers of a datagrid can be passed a noresize flag, which when set to true, inhibits this ability.

Simply define your column header as so:

<th field="id" width="50" noresize=true width="200"> ID </th>

Setting the width is optional, but any column without it will default to be 6em wide.

Preventing sorting is a little trickier. To do this I added the following code to the postCreate function of my widget to disable sorting on the fifth and sixth columns of my table (indexing starts at 1):

postCreate: function() { 
    this.myGrid.canSort = function(col){ if(col === 5 || col === 6) { return false; } else { return true; }};
},