ILayoutElement.flexibleWidth

Description

The extra relative width this layout element should be allocated if there is additional available space.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI; // Required when using UI elements.

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform MyContentPanel;

    //Sets the flexible height on on all children in the content panel.
    public void Start()
    {
        //Assign all the children of the content panel to an array.
        LayoutElement[] myLayoutElements = MyContentPanel.GetComponentsInChildren<LayoutElement>();

        //For each child in the array change its LayoutElement's flexible width to 200.
        foreach (LayoutElement element in myLayoutElements)
        {
            element.flexibleWidth = 200f;
        }
    }
}

Setting preferredWidth to -1 removed the preferredWidth.