The great cytoscape manual indicates that “Cytoscape.js uses the dimensions of your HTML DOM element container for layouts and rendering at initialisation”.

It is clear to me that the random layout does use the container size; and it is clear that the fit-after-layout functionality, which computes the zoom level required to fit within the available size, does (obviously) require an available size that must be chosen beforehand.

I wonder about the other cases, though. Most layout algorithms, it seems to me, produce a result whose size does not depend on the available size. I have tested the breadthfirst one, for example, and it seems it does not vary when the container size is increased or decreased (with disabled zooming).

So, does that sentence refer to only some layout algorithms and to the “auto fit” functionality only?

(My question is because I would like to request a feature that would permit to size the container depending on the rendered size (as in this question). This however makes sense only if the rendered size is indeed, at least in some cases, independent of the available size.)