From aeacf155df253c2d2a02815f5840c66911526918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vijayant <vijayant@poshmark.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:17:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: Support for specifying col names for col_space

---
 pandas/core/frame.py        | 2 ++
 pandas/io/formats/format.py | 2 ++
 pandas/io/formats/html.py   | 7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 5200ad0ba0d23..e9878692784d9 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -2188,6 +2188,7 @@ def to_html(
         buf=None,
         columns=None,
         col_space=None,
+        col_space_cols=None,
         header=True,
         index=True,
         na_rep="NaN",
@@ -2244,6 +2245,7 @@ def to_html(
             self,
             columns=columns,
             col_space=col_space,
+            col_space_cols=col_space_cols,
             na_rep=na_rep,
             formatters=formatters,
             float_format=float_format,
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/format.py b/pandas/io/formats/format.py
index ad62c56a337b6..40b7d68595804 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/format.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/format.py
@@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ def __init__(
         frame: "DataFrame",
         columns: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None,
         col_space: Optional[Union[str, int]] = None,
+        col_space_cols: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None,
         header: Union[bool, Sequence[str]] = True,
         index: bool = True,
         na_rep: str = "NaN",
@@ -575,6 +576,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.na_rep = na_rep
         self.decimal = decimal
         self.col_space = col_space
+        self.col_space_cols = col_space_cols
         self.header = header
         self.index = index
         self.line_width = line_width
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/html.py b/pandas/io/formats/html.py
index 50fa4796f8d72..999e28828f9b4 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/html.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/html.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ def write_th(
         self, s: Any, header: bool = False, indent: int = 0, tags: Optional[str] = None
     ) -> None:
         """
-        Method for writting a formatted <th> cell.
+        Method for writing a formatted <th> cell.
 
         If col_space is set on the formatter then that is used for
         the value of min-width.
@@ -122,8 +122,9 @@ def write_th(
         A written <th> cell.
         """
         if header and self.fmt.col_space is not None:
-            tags = tags or ""
-            tags += 'style="min-width: {colspace};"'.format(colspace=self.fmt.col_space)
+            if self.fmt.col_space_cols is None or s in self.fmt.col_space_cols:
+                tags = tags or ""
+                tags += 'style="min-width: {colspace};"'.format(colspace=self.fmt.col_space)
 
         self._write_cell(s, kind="th", indent=indent, tags=tags)