* * When DataTables calculates the column widths to assign to each column, * it finds the longest string in each column and then constructs a * temporary table and reads the widths from that. The problem with this * is that "mmm" is much wider then "iiii", but the latter is a longer * string - thus the calculation can go wrong (doing it properly and putting * it into an DOM object and measuring that is horribly(!) slow). Thus as * a "work around" we provide this option. It will append its value to the * text that is found to be the longest string for the column - i.e. padding.