Datatables: Hide data instead of Removing it

Jamaur

I know that this question is a long shot, but I'm gonna ask anyway. Is it possible for data to be hidden instead of being removed? (When filtering, hiding columns, ecc...)

I am using ASP.NET and am populating the rows with controls (Textboxes, DropdownLists, ecc...). Whenever the controls are removed (Ex: filtering), I can never get the latest control values from code-behind/server side. I only get the value with which the control was initialized.

Are there any possible workarounds or alternatives (if possible, without any asynchronous calls)?

Thanks.

allan

As in display:none rather than being removed from the document? You could possibly modify DataTables to do that, but I suspect it would be a lot of work and it isn't something that it was designed for.

Allan

Jamaur

Yes, I'm talking about display: none. Any other alternatives i could try?

allan

I don't actually know what you are trying to do, so I'm not sure. If you want the values from the hidden nodes, then use the API and jQuery - for example $('input', table.rows().nodes() ) to get all input nodes in the table.

Allan