Ability to have icons for column headers title

[akulmehta]

Feature Request

Summary

Having icons for column headers can be useful to reduce the column width.

However, currently this is not possible as the string is escaped in output in cols.blade.php with

<span>{{ $column->title }}</span>

Why is this needed?

Example, imagine if we have a column showing visibility as either private or public. Rather than showing the words "Private", "Public" and Visibility, we could have a more thinner column as seen in the screenshot below:

Suggested Solution(s)

There are two potential solutions for this.

1. Currently the column title is escaped in cols.blade.php using blade {{ }} double curly syntax. Since the column title is provided by the developer using either the Column::make() or Column::title() command, I am not sure if character escaping is required.

cols.blade.php:line33 change to:

<span>{!! $column->title !!}</span>

2. Expand the Column class and make methods to accept an optional $icon attribute which is rendered in the cols.blade.php {!! !!}.

Related issue(s)/PR(s)

Happy to make a PR depending on which solution is better above.

[luanfreitasdev]

Thanks for your suggestion and I believe it to be a simple and effective solution.

Can you send the PR ?

[akulmehta]

I will generate a PR. Thanks. Another positive side effect of option 1 is you can directly enter html as well. So for larger column titles one could split the title in two lines.