Access to data that's not on visible page
Access to data that's not on visible page
pinetree.rg
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First of all hi, and a big thumbs up to both the author and the community around this plugin.
Now to the reason of my writing.
I have a table in which the first column is a "sorter" column, the middle column is the main data column, and the last is like a secondary "sorter".
The thing is in the middle column, i have html, not plain text, namlely another table, simply for layout purposes, not affected by datatables. All these inner tables have a of common data, identified by identical class name.
If i want to access and change this common data using jquery selectors, it obviously works only on the visible page.
Using fnGetNodes(), and fnGetData(), i was able to extract this inner table into a variable.
Obviously the inner table html is now stored as a simple string, so traversing it using dom selectors like "children" won't work.
For now i have managed to change this common data by iterating the row nodes and replace()-ing the substring of the data string returned by fnGetData(), and updating it by fnUpdate().
However i find this solution a bit clumsy, so if anyone has some other ideas, i'll be happy to hear them.
P.S. i'm quite a newbie with javascript, jquery and datatables, so forgive me if i've overlooked something obvious here. Also if this is more of a javascript, or jquery specific thing, please let me know, so i can look elsewhere for a solution.
Now to the reason of my writing.
I have a table in which the first column is a "sorter" column, the middle column is the main data column, and the last is like a secondary "sorter".
The thing is in the middle column, i have html, not plain text, namlely another table, simply for layout purposes, not affected by datatables. All these inner tables have a of common data, identified by identical class name.
If i want to access and change this common data using jquery selectors, it obviously works only on the visible page.
Using fnGetNodes(), and fnGetData(), i was able to extract this inner table into a variable.
Obviously the inner table html is now stored as a simple string, so traversing it using dom selectors like "children" won't work.
For now i have managed to change this common data by iterating the row nodes and replace()-ing the substring of the data string returned by fnGetData(), and updating it by fnUpdate().
However i find this solution a bit clumsy, so if anyone has some other ideas, i'll be happy to hear them.
P.S. i'm quite a newbie with javascript, jquery and datatables, so forgive me if i've overlooked something obvious here. Also if this is more of a javascript, or jquery specific thing, please let me know, so i can look elsewhere for a solution.
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