Custom YUI Grid Column Widths

Nate Koechley has a very useful post about customizing the column widths in YUI grids. This should be added somehow to the YUI Grid builder so that it can be automated.

More Hidden YUI Treasures: Cheat Sheets

I believe by far the biggest challenge to using YUI is not it's feature set, or it's syntax. Instead it is navigating the documentation to tease out just what you want it to do, as well as get a plain example - not one that rolls up 10 different concepts into one. Well, if mastery of YUI is your goal, or "hidden treasure" then the YUI cheat sheets are your treasure map. The are easy to overlook if you are not careful in exploring the YUI website. However they contain many useful hints and best practices. I recommend printing them with a color printer, since they try to use a color coding system to help you find things.

Also, the cheat sheets try to help you with configuration settings as well - for instance in tabview:

All TabView events are Custom Events (see Event Utility docs); subscribe to these events using addListener (e.g. myTabs.addListener(‘activeChange”, fn); ).