Tell dataTable() which table rows to parse?!

lnaie

Hi,

I'm looking for a mechanism (at intialization or rendering time) to tell dataTable object which of the html table tr rows to take into account on rendering. Basically one dataTable logical row will map to a couple of rows. Or at least to map only to some of them, the others being skipped but controlled later manually: to collapse/expand or maybe init any other inner table, etc.
Possible something such as fnRowCallback or fnDrawCallback or a css class that will tell dataTable to parse only the flagged rows.

Is there such an easy way of achieving this?

koosvdkolk

Could you please tell us what goal you would like to achieve in the end?

I am not sure, but I suspect that is not possible to let DataTables just skip some rows of a HTML table while rendering, because this would mess up all kinds of internal variables. For example, the variable 'number of rows in datatable': Is this all rows, or only the rows being rendered?

allan

As @koosvdkolk suggests you can't have some rows ignored in DataTables. For example, what you happen when sorting, or filtering the table?

Allan

lnaie

Sorting or filtering it's a good reason not to do this.
But then the table row should include another table that will have the fancy layout I need.
Thx