Prevent expandable object from shrinking

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I have a score board. It is relatively sized using the vertical layout group. The container keeps growing and shrinking though since the size of each digit is different.

ie: 2 is wider than 1.
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Any suggestions?

I currently have two ideas but am having trouble editing the widths of objects...
1. Set width of container/text if the characters change.
2. Create a min-width script for the container and update it everytime the width increases.

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Answer by aloften · Jan 15, 2020 at 07:22 AM

Wait. I figured it out...
If anyone else needs a dynamic min-width, this script should work. :)

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class ScoreSizer : MonoBehaviour
 {
 
     private RectTransform thatRect;
     private LayoutElement thatLayout;
 
     // Start is called before the first frame update
     void Start() {
         thatRect = gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
         thatLayout = gameObject.GetComponent<LayoutElement>();
 
     }
 
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update() {
         if (thatRect.rect.width > thatLayout.minWidth) {
             thatLayout.minWidth = thatRect.rect.width;
 
         }
         
     }
 
 }

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