AutoFill - How can you copy only the text portion of a cell when dragging?

glenderson

I'm trying to use AutoFill on a table.

Each cell, contains a <span class={some class} id={some id} onclick={some function} oncontextmenu={some different function}>my value</span>. I only want to copy / autoFill the "my value" portion, and not the entire contents of the <td>.

I can easily read the value of the cell via the "read" option

"read": function(cell) {return $(cell).text()}

But, I cannot figure out the "write" / "step" methods that would allow me to only replace the .text() portion of the cell I'm writing to.

"write": function(cell, val) {return $(cell).text(val)}

The basic idea is that I have 12 cells, and the user can fill in cells doing a "copy right" type of command, highlight a cell, drag them right, let go, and those cells are populated with the first cells value, but not the <span> contents as they are all unique. My tables are all populated via JSON (because of ajax updates) on a callback ajax method so I cannot put the various span elements (id, on events, etc.) on the <td> itself.

I like the visual presentation of the AutoFill extension, just looking for a way to replace only the .text() of the cell (without any increments to numerical values also).

glenderson

The solution was to set the text of the first child of the cell.
Something like
return $(cell).children().first().text(val) in the write function.