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How to make collapsible column in Datatable ?

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User-20594325 posted

Hi,

I have below code with Multi level column in Jquery Datatable. What i want is that i want to make HR Information and Contact columns to be collapsible by adding + and - symbol next to them name? How Can i do that? below is my code.

<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css"
          rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/fixedcolumns/3.2.6/css/fixedColumns.dataTables.min.css"
          rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/fixedcolumns/3.2.6/js/dataTables.fixedColumns.min.js"></script>
    <table id="example" class="stripe row-border order-column table table-condensed table-striped table-bordered" style="width:100%"  >
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th rowspan="2">Name</th>
                <th colspan="2" class="header-1"  name="speed">HR Information <img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:1PS9x2Ho4LHpaM:http://www.unesco.org/ulis/imag/minus.png" /></th>
                <th colspan="4">Contact</th>
            </tr>
            <tr class="this_h">
                <th id="hrcolumn" class="x"  name="speed">Position</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Extn.</th>
                <th>E-mail</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
                <td>System Architect</td>
                <td>$320,800</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>5421</td>
                <td>t.nixon@datatables.net</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Garrett Winters</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
                <td>$170,750</td>
                <td>Tokyo</td>
                <td>8422</td>
                <td>g.winters@datatables.net</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>$86,000</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>1562</td>
                <td>a.cox@datatables.net</td>
            </tr>

        </tbody>

    </table>



    $(document).ready(function () {
        var table = $('#example').DataTable({
            scrollY: "300px",
            scrollX: true,
            scrollCollapse: true,
            paging: false,
            fixedColumns: true
        });
    });


    th, td {
            white-space: nowrap;
            padding-left: 40px !important;
            padding-right: 40px !important;
        }
        div.dataTables_wrapper {
            width: 800px;
            margin: 0 auto;
        }

Sunday, May 26, 2019 1:39 AM

Answers

User839733648 posted

Hi bhavesh7098,

According to your description and code, I suggest that you could use the column visibility plug-in for Buttons to achieve your reuqirment.

It provides a set of buttons that can be used to easily give the end user the ability to set the visibility of columns.

And you could use table.column(1).visible(!table.column(1).visible()) to find and hide the column.

Here are the working sample:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
    <link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/fixedcolumns/3.2.6/css/fixedColumns.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.5.6/css/buttons.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/fixedcolumns/3.2.6/js/dataTables.fixedColumns.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.5.6/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.5.6/js/buttons.colVis.min.js"></script>

    <style>
        th, td {
            white-space: nowrap;
            padding-left: 40px !important;
            padding-right: 40px !important;
        }

        div.dataTables_wrapper {
            width: 800px;
            margin: 0 auto;
        }
    </style>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function () {
            var table = $('#example').DataTable({
                scrollY: "300px",
                scrollX: true,
                scrollCollapse: true,
                paging: false,
                fixedColumns: true,
                dom: 'Bfrtip',
                buttons: [
                    {
                        extend: 'colvisGroup',
                        text: 'Show HR',
                        show: [1, 2]
                    },
                    {
                        extend: 'colvisGroup',
                        text: 'Show Contact',
                        show: [3, 4, 5]
                    },
                    {
                        extend: 'colvisGroup',
                        text: 'Show all',
                        show: ':hidden'
                    }
                ]
            });

            $('#test').on('click', function (e) {
                e.preventDefault();
                table.column(1).visible(!table.column(1).visible());
                table.column(2).visible(!table.column(2).visible());
            });

            $('#test1').on('click', function (e) {
                e.preventDefault();
                table.column(3).visible(!table.column(3).visible());
                table.column(4).visible(!table.column(4).visible());
                table.column(5).visible(!table.column(5).visible());
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <table id="example" class="stripe row-border order-column table table-condensed table-striped table-bordered" style="width: 100%">
            <thead>
                <tr>
                    <th rowspan="2">Name</th>
                    <th colspan="2">HR Information
                        <img id="test" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:1PS9x2Ho4LHpaM:http://www.unesco.org/ulis/imag/minus.png" /></th>
                    <th colspan="3">Contact
                        <img id="test1" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:1PS9x2Ho4LHpaM:http://www.unesco.org/ulis/imag/minus.png" /></th>
                </tr>
                <tr class="this_h">
                    <th>Position</th>
                    <th>Salary</th>
                    <th>Office</th>
                    <th>Extn.</th>
                    <th>E-mail</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
                <tr>
                    <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
                    <td>System Architect</td>
                    <td>$320,800</td>
                    <td>Edinburgh</td>
                    <td>5421</td>
                    <td>t.nixon@datatables.net</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>Garrett Winters</td>
                    <td>Accountant</td>
                    <td>$170,750</td>
                    <td>Tokyo</td>
                    <td>8422</td>
                    <td>g.winters@datatables.net</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                    <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                    <td>$86,000</td>
                    <td>San Francisco</td>
                    <td>1562</td>
                    <td>a.cox@datatables.net</td>
                </tr>

            </tbody>

        </table>

    </form>
</body>
</html>

result:

Reference:

https://datatables.net/extensions/buttons/examples/column_visibility/index.html

https://datatables.net/examples/api/show_hide.html

https://datatables.net/reference/type/column-selector

Best Regards,

Jenifer

Marked as answer by Anonymous Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM

Monday, May 27, 2019 2:50 AM

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