The other bubble editing examples show bubble editing with the first column being used to select the whole row. While this can be useful for allowing the user to edit all fields at the same time, or to select the rows to delete, you might wish to show the row controls inline with the table, rather than using row selection.
This example shows how that might be achieved, simply by calling Editor's create(), bubble()
and remove() API methods as appropriate, from event
handlers attached to the document.
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 | var editor; // use a global for the submit and return data rendering in the examples$(document).ready(function() { editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( { ajax: "../php/staff.php", table: "#example", fields: [ { label: "First name:", name: "first_name" }, { label: "Last name:", name: "last_name" }, { label: "Position:", name: "position" }, { label: "Office:", name: "office" }, { label: "Extension:", name: "extn" }, { label: "Start date:", name: "start_date", type: "datetime" }, { label: "Salary:", name: "salary" } ], formOptions: { bubble: { title: 'Edit', buttons: false } } } ); $('button.new').on( 'click', function () { editor .title( 'Create new row' ) .buttons( { "label": "Add", "fn": function () { editor.submit() } } ) .create(); } ); $('#example').on( 'click', 'tbody td', function (e) { if ( $(this).index() < 6 ) { editor.bubble( this ); } } ); $('#example').on( 'click', 'a.remove', function (e) { editor .title( 'Delete row' ) .message( 'Are you sure you wish to delete this row?' ) .buttons( { "label": "Delete", "fn": function () { editor.submit() } } ) .remove( $(this).closest('tr') ); } ); $('#example').DataTable( { ajax: "../php/staff.php", columns: [ { data: "first_name" }, { data: "last_name" }, { data: "position" }, { data: "office" }, { data: "start_date" }, { data: "salary", render: $.fn.dataTable.render.number( ',', '.', 0, '$' ) }, { data: null, defaultContent: '<a href="#" class="remove">Delete</a>', orderable: false }, ] } );} ); |
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
Editor submits and retrieves information by Ajax requests. The two blocks below show the data that Editor submits and receives, to and from the server. This is updated live as you interact with Editor so you can see what is submitted.
The following shows the data that has been submitted to the server when a request is made to add, edit or delete data from the table.
1 | // No data yet submitted |
The following shows the data that has been returned by the server in response to the data submitted on the left and is then acted upon.
1 | // No data yet received |