Tablepress - Tabletool buttons not showing if table contains #colspan

bmckray

The title says it all. I have used some #colspans in some of my tables on our company intranet site for aesthetics and readability. Most of these tables don't need to be sorted. I do want to allow users/viewers to export the table to a PDF file. Is there a way to get the buttons to show up when there is a #colspan in the table?

allan

So fundamentally in DataTables, the key thing to remember with complex headers is that there _must_ be a unique cell for each column - i.e. each column must have its own cell which uniquely addresses just that column - so sorting and filtering can be applied to it.

For example this is a valid layout:

[code]
+---+---+---+---+
| | |
+---+---+---+---+
| | | | |
+---+---+---+---+
[/code]

while this is not (since the last two are both colspanning).

[code]
+---+---+---+---+
| | | |
+---+---+---+---+
| | | |
+---+---+---+---+
[/code]

Also, currently the PDF export option does not support colspan I'm afraid.

Allan