I've being trying to implement data table,but its not working.Checking with my google chrome debugger;it returns error that "Cannot read property 'each' of null".I've been trying to debug this but am not getting it through.
here is a reference to the website, to see examples http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/multi_filter.html
Below here is the code:
sortable.js
$(document).ready(function() {
// Setup - add a text input to each footer cell
$('#example tfoot th').each( function () {
var title = $('#example thead th').eq( $(this).index() ).text();
$(this).html( '<input type="text" placeholder="Search '+title+'" />' );
} );
// DataTable
var table = $('#example').DataTable();
// Apply the search
table.columns().eq( 0 ).each( function ( colIdx ) {
$( 'input', table.column( colIdx ).footer() ).on( 'keyup change', function () {
table
.column( colIdx )
.search( this.value )
.draw();
} );
} );
} );
index.html
<html>
<head>
<!--INCLUDE JQUERY-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{JS('jquery-1.11.0.min.js')}}"></script>
<!--INCLUDE DATAtABLE JQUERY RESOURCE-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{JS('jquery.dataTables.min.js')}}"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2011/04/25</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2009/01/12</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2012/03/29</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>2008/11/28</td>
<td>$162,700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2012/12/02</td>
<td>$372,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
<td>Sales Assistant</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2012/08/06</td>
<td>$137,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>2010/10/14</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>2009/09/15</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>2008/12/13</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jena Gaines</td>
<td>Office Manager</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>2008/12/19</td>
<td>$90,560</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quinn Flynn</td>
<td>Support Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2013/03/03</td>
<td>$342,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charde Marshall</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>2008/10/16</td>
<td>$470,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Haley Kennedy</td>
<td>Senior Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>43</td>
<td>2012/12/18</td>
<td>$313,500</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
THANKS IN ADVANCE
i actually required the sortable in my master file coz am using laravel,and when i did enter $('#example tfoot th') into my console it returned an array of this:
[
Name
,
Position
,
Office
,
Age
,
Start date
,
Salary
]
but looking at the source file on the debugger i discovered that the error is shown on the line where i have "table.columns().eq( 0 ).each( function ( colIdx )".
but am sorry i dont get the part of the breakpoint; cuz what i tried is to add "break;" after the line
open the page in Chrome's Web Developer Tools and go to console (or simply press esc). Enter:
$('#example tfoot th')
and press enter. See what it evaluates to. If it can't find any elements, then there's your problem. Considering the html you supplied, I doubt this is going to be your problem (unless you have a more serious problem with jQuery and where it looks).
Therefor, the problem should be on the second .each(). Go to sources in Web Developer Tools, open sortable.js file and put a breakpoint on the line with
table.columns().eq( 0 ).each( function ( colIdx )
and refresh the page. Once the breakpoint has been hit, enter in the console:
table.columns()
and see what it evaluates to. My guess is it's going to be null.
I don't see where you've included sortable.js. Did you include it after requiring dataTables.min.js?
Related
Link to test case: http://live.datatables.net/yevonevo/1/edit?html,js,output
Link to documentation tutorial: https://datatables.net/examples/api/counter_columns.html
Goal: Creating a index column that behaves as a "ranking" column, right after initialization, so it assigns fixed indexes to rows that will be preserved when re-ordering the table according to other columns.
I am playing around and I have come up with 2 different ways that behave slightly different:
Setting data property of cell:
$('#example').on('init.dt', function() {
console.log('init');
let i = 1;
$('#example').DataTable().cells(null, 0, { search: 'applied', order: 'applied' }).every(function (cell) {
this.data(i++);
});
});
var table = $('#example').DataTable({
pageLength: 5,
order: [[1,'asc']]
});
Setting innerHTML of node:
$('#example').on('init.dt', function() {
$('#example').DataTable().column(0, {search:'applied', order:'applied'}).nodes().each( function (cell, i) {
cell.innerHTML = i+1;
});
});
var table = $('#example').DataTable({
pageLength: 5,
order: [[1,'asc']]
});
Both create the indexes perfectly, but while I am able to manually re-order the table based on the first column ranking values using the first solution, I cannot use that column to re-order using the second option (with manually I mean after having created the table and clicking on sortin arrows).
Why does that happen?
When you make a change directly to a node in the DOM (a change to the table HTML)...
cell.innerHTML = i+1;
...then you are using a web API, not a DataTables function.
That change is not visible to DataTables (the underlying JavaScript data structure), unless you tell DataTables about that change. If DataTables re-draws the table it will use its internal data - and any DOM changes in the HTML table will be discarded.
The data you see when you look at the web page may not be the data which DataTables has stored.
Contrast that with a DataTables API function such as:
cell().data( value )
...which updates the underlying DataTable data. Now, when a re-draw of the table happens (explicitly or implicitly), you get to see that data.
DataTables assigns a zero-based internal row ID when it is initialized - based on the order in which rows were loaded from whatever source you are using. You can make that internal ID visible if you want:
"render": function ( data, type, row, meta ) {
return meta.row + 1;
}
See columns.render
An example:
$(document).ready(function() {
var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
"columnDefs": [ {
"targets": 0,
//"data": "",
"render": function ( data, type, row, meta ) {
return meta.row + 1;
}
} ]
} );
} );
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Demo</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.22/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.22/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://datatables.net/media/css/site-examples.css">
</head>
<body>
<div style="margin: 20px;">
<table id="example" class="display dataTable cell-border" style="width:100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Index</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2011/04/25</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2009/01/12</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2012/03/29</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>2008/11/28</td>
<td>$162,700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2012/12/02</td>
<td>$372,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
<td>Sales Assistant</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2012/08/06</td>
<td>$137,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>2010/10/14</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>2009/09/15</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>2008/12/13</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Jena Gaines</td>
<td>Office Manager</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>2008/12/19</td>
<td>$90,560</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Quinn Flynn</td>
<td>Support Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2013/03/03</td>
<td>$342,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Charde Marshall</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>2008/10/16</td>
<td>$470,600</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I am very new to html/javascript and I am struggling to have this fixed, would you please help!!
I am trying to use DataTables jQuery plugin for sorting an IP-address column.
I found followed many resources and but I couldn't full apply them as there is no full solution provided.
I don't have a clue on how to define this column with the correct type to connect the puzzle pieces! :
"aoColumns": [
null,
{ "sType": 'string-ip' },
null
],
$('#example').dataTable( {
columnDefs: [
{ type: 'ip-address', targets: 0 }
]
} );
can someone fix the below code?
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Create jquery databable easily</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/1.11.3/sorting/ip-address.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable({
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Create jquery datatable easily</h2>
</body>
<table id="example" class="display" style="width:100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th id=name>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th id=ipaddress sType=string-ip>IP-Address</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>10.29.0.36</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>172.29.0.78</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>172.29.0.98</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>172.29.0.47</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>172.29.0.56</td>
<td>$162,700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>172.29.0.2</td>
<td>$372,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
<td>Sales Assistant</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>172.29.0.223</td>
<td>$137,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>172.29.0.20</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>172.29.0.13</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>172.29.0.113</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>IP-address</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
</html>
In your example in the question, the column containing the IP addresses is the 5th column (so its index is 4 - column 1 has an index of zero).
That is the value you need to use in the targets option: you are targeting column index 4 to use the ip-address custom data type.
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
columnDefs: [
{ type: 'ip-address', targets: 4 }
]
} );
} );
</script>
You were very close with your fragment: { type: 'ip-address', targets: 0 } - just change 0 to 4.
I recommend you put the DataTable script at the end of the page - immediately before the closing </body> tag.
Here is a runnable demo - click on the triangles in the IP Address column to see the plugin being used:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
columnDefs: [
{ type: 'ip-address', targets: 4 }
]
} );
} );
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Demo Sort IP Addresses</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<!-- the IP address sorting plug-in: -->
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/1.11.3/sorting/ip-address.js"></script>
<!-- not required, just used for some extra table styling: -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://datatables.net/media/css/site-examples.css">
</head>
<body>
<div style="margin: 20px;">
<table id="example" class="display dataTable cell-border" style="width:100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th id=name>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th id=ipaddress sType=string-ip>IP-Address</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>10.29.0.36</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>172.29.0.78</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>172.29.0.98</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>172.29.0.47</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>172.29.0.56</td>
<td>$162,700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>172.29.0.2</td>
<td>$372,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
<td>Sales Assistant</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>172.29.0.223</td>
<td>$137,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>172.29.0.20</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>172.29.0.13</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>172.29.0.113</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>IP-address</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
</html>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have the following Datatable: LIVE DATATABLES
Before I click a button to submit the form, I would like to know the ids of the selected rows.
What I've tried:
$( "#testrow" ).click(function() {
console.log(DT4.rows().ids());
});
I used rows().ids() method (official datatables api documentation)
and I expected to get an array or something similar with the index numbers of the selected rows, but instead I am getting this:
This method does not read the DOM id for the tr so I am wondering which is the best way to know which row was selected (from the DOM) before submitting a form.
You can try like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
var table = $('#example').DataTable();
$('#example tbody').on( 'click', 'tr', function () {
$(this).toggleClass('selected');
} );
$('#button').click( function () {
let data = table.rows('.selected').data()
console.log(data)
} );
});
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.js"
integrity="sha256-H+K7U5CnXl1h5ywQfKtSj8PCmoN9aaq30gDh27Xc0jk=" crossorigin="anonymous" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<button id="button">Get Row Selected</button>
<table id="example" class="display table table-striped table-bordered" style="width:100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>2010/10/14</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>2009/09/15</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>2008/12/13</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jena Gaines</td>
<td>Office Manager</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>2008/12/19</td>
<td>$90,560</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quinn Flynn</td>
<td>Support Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2013/03/03</td>
<td>$342,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charde Marshall</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>2008/10/16</td>
<td>$470,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Haley Kennedy</td>
<td>Senior Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>43</td>
<td>2012/12/18</td>
<td>$313,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tatyana Fitzpatrick</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>2010/03/17</td>
<td>$385,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Michael Silva</td>
<td>Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2012/11/27</td>
<td>$198,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Paul Byrd</td>
<td>Chief Financial Officer (CFO)</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>64</td>
<td>2010/06/09</td>
<td>$725,000</td>
</tr>
</table>
With my previous question on tables - Array to Object with Values in a Range, I have a question. The problem with the previous approach is I have been doing the stuff in normal HTML Tables, and the implementation here is in DataTables. So I thought of taking this approach of:
Kill the DataTables.
Apply my class addition.
Re-Initialise the DataTables.
In order for me to do this, I need to have the parameters with which the DataTables are initialised. To explain this with an example, let's say I have a DataTable instance, and I kill it, do something and now I need the original object like below:
{
"pagination": false,
"searching": false
}
Consider the following snippet:
$(function() {
$("#example").DataTable({
"paging": false,
"searching": false
});
});
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/bs-3.3.7/jq-2.2.4/dt-1.10.15/datatables.min.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/bs-3.3.7/jq-2.2.4/dt-1.10.15/datatables.min.js"></script>
<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2011/04/25</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2009/01/12</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2012/03/29</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>2008/11/28</td>
<td>$162,700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2012/12/02</td>
<td>$372,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
<td>Sales Assistant</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2012/08/06</td>
<td>$137,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>2010/10/14</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>2009/09/15</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>2008/12/13</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jena Gaines</td>
<td>Office Manager</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>2008/12/19</td>
<td>$90,560</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quinn Flynn</td>
<td>Support Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2013/03/03</td>
<td>$342,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charde Marshall</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>2008/10/16</td>
<td>$470,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Haley Kennedy</td>
<td>Senior Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>43</td>
<td>2012/12/18</td>
<td>$313,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tatyana Fitzpatrick</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>2010/03/17</td>
<td>$385,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Michael Silva</td>
<td>Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2012/11/27</td>
<td>$198,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Paul Byrd</td>
<td>Chief Financial Officer (CFO)</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>64</td>
<td>2010/06/09</td>
<td>$725,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gloria Little</td>
<td>Systems Administrator</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2009/04/10</td>
<td>$237,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bradley Greer</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>41</td>
<td>2012/10/13</td>
<td>$132,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dai Rios</td>
<td>Personnel Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>35</td>
<td>2012/09/26</td>
<td>$217,500</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
So when I kill the DT and do something, I need to find the same object again. Is it possible? I am happy to clarify if it is not clear.
From the manual of DataTable().init(), it does have an option. You need to use:
$("#example").DataTable().init();
Although, this will not give you the exact initialisation object that you have used it before you initialised it, at least you can get to make the same DataTable configuration as how it was before it was killed. A snippet to demonstrate the same is as follows:
$(function() {
$("#example").DataTable({
"paging": false,
"searching": false
});
var config = $("#example").DataTable().init();
$("#example").DataTable().destroy();
console.log(config);
});
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/bs-3.3.7/jq-2.2.4/dt-1.10.15/datatables.min.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/bs-3.3.7/jq-2.2.4/dt-1.10.15/datatables.min.js"></script>
<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2011/04/25</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2009/01/12</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2012/03/29</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>2008/11/28</td>
<td>$162,700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2012/12/02</td>
<td>$372,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
<td>Sales Assistant</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2012/08/06</td>
<td>$137,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>2010/10/14</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>2009/09/15</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>2008/12/13</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jena Gaines</td>
<td>Office Manager</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>2008/12/19</td>
<td>$90,560</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quinn Flynn</td>
<td>Support Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2013/03/03</td>
<td>$342,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charde Marshall</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>2008/10/16</td>
<td>$470,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Haley Kennedy</td>
<td>Senior Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>43</td>
<td>2012/12/18</td>
<td>$313,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tatyana Fitzpatrick</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>2010/03/17</td>
<td>$385,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Michael Silva</td>
<td>Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2012/11/27</td>
<td>$198,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Paul Byrd</td>
<td>Chief Financial Officer (CFO)</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>64</td>
<td>2010/06/09</td>
<td>$725,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gloria Little</td>
<td>Systems Administrator</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2009/04/10</td>
<td>$237,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bradley Greer</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>41</td>
<td>2012/10/13</td>
<td>$132,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dai Rios</td>
<td>Personnel Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>35</td>
<td>2012/09/26</td>
<td>$217,500</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I had written something similar in my blogpost - Getting the Initialisation Parameters for DataTables, now updated with the link to this question too. Hope this helps.
The problem I'm experiencing in Chrome and Edge:
Go to https://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/zero_configuration.html
Sort the table by some column (e.g. "Age")
Use the pagination interface at the bottom of the table to go to one of the other pages
Click on one of the navigation links to the left (e.g. "FAQs" or "Download")
Click the browser's back button and observe that the table is now back to its original state (sorted by the "Name" column and on page 1)
In Firefox, the table is still sorted by the correct column and is still on the correct page. How can I make Chrome and Edge also behave this way?
I know DataTables has its stateSave option (documentation and example), but the problem with that is when the user navigates around the site and then clicks a link to go to the page that has the DataTables table, it will put them back into the same state in that scenario too. I only want the user to be put back into the same state if they use their browser's back button.
Based on this post you could clear the saved state when you click on the link that leads you to the page with the table
see example here
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
"paging": true,
"ordering": true,
"info": false,
stateSave: true
} );
} );
$(".table_link").on("click", function(){
$('#example').DataTable().state.clear();
});
Ok have kind of a crazy idea that might work for this. If you use the "stateSaveCallback" to set a URL hash this will add an item into the browser history. Then you could check for the hash value when the page loads. If the hash is not present then you clear the state cache on the DataTable.
Where this breaks down is in the following scenarios:
Scenario 1: User presses back button after state save on data table page:
User does something on grid.
State is saved triggering the stateSaveCallback
stateSaveCallback updates the "window.location.hash" value.
User then presses the "back" button
Page goes to the current URL except without the hash.
State is cleared.
Scenario 2: Users copies URL after state save has taken place
User does something on grid.
State is saved triggering the stateSaveCallback
stateSaveCallback updates the "window.location.hash" value.
User manually copies URL which includes hash value.
User uses this copied value to directly navigate to data table page.
Previous state won't be cleared.
But in all the other scenarios provided as long as you don't include the hash code on your navigation links this would reliably detect if a user used the back button to navigate to the grid since it would be it's own history item.
Try this code: (concept maybe helpful)
<html>
<head>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/css/dataTables.bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.3.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/js/dataTables.bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<style> .modal{text-align:center;}
body{margin: 0 auto;padding:15px;}</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
<table id="demoDataTable" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2011/04/25</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2009/01/12</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2012/03/29</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>2008/11/28</td>
<td>$162,700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2012/12/02</td>
<td>$372,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
<td>Sales Assistant</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2012/08/06</td>
<td>$137,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
<td>Integration Specialist</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>2010/10/14</td>
<td>$327,900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
<td>Javascript Developer</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>2009/09/15</td>
<td>$205,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sonya Frost</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>2008/12/13</td>
<td>$103,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jena Gaines</td>
<td>Office Manager</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>2008/12/19</td>
<td>$90,560</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quinn Flynn</td>
<td>Support Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2013/03/03</td>
<td>$342,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charde Marshall</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>36</td>
<td>2008/10/16</td>
<td>$470,600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Haley Kennedy</td>
<td>Senior Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>43</td>
<td>2012/12/18</td>
<td>$313,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tatyana Fitzpatrick</td>
<td>Regional Director</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>2010/03/17</td>
<td>$385,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Michael Silva</td>
<td>Marketing Designer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2012/11/27</td>
<td>$198,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Paul Byrd</td>
<td>Chief Financial Officer (CFO)</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>64</td>
<td>2010/06/09</td>
<td>$725,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gloria Little</td>
<td>Systems Administrator</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>2009/04/10</td>
<td>$237,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bradley Greer</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>41</td>
<td>2012/10/13</td>
<td>$132,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dai Rios</td>
<td>Personnel Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>35</td>
<td>2012/09/26</td>
<td>$217,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jenette Caldwell</td>
<td>Development Lead</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>2011/09/03</td>
<td>$345,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yuri Berry</td>
<td>Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)</td>
<td>New York</td>
<td>40</td>
<td>2009/06/25</td>
<td>$675,000</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div></div>
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" role="dialog">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button>
<h4 class="modal-title">Do you want to load the original table?</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<button type="button" class="no btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">No</button>
<button type="button" class="yes btn btn-primary" data-dismiss="modal">Yes</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var $table = $('#demoDataTable').DataTable({
stateSave: true
});
if ($table.state()) {
$('#myModal').modal('show');
}
$('.yes').click(function() {
$table.state.clear();
$table.destroy();
$('#demoDataTable').DataTable({
stateSave: true
});
});
});
</script>
</html>