Possible to edit how fnServerData is rendered? Insert classes and skip cells?

ginjaninja

Sorry if this is redundant. It's hard to explain what I'm looking for, and even harder to Google. I am using dataTables to display an interactive list of users that looks like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97024286@N07/8960402297/

As you can see there are icon buttons mixed in with the user data. I wanted to change the table so it's being populated via fnServerData, (right now it's built on page load then turned into a dataTable). I can't tell if there's a way to interrupt the output from fnServerData and add classes to empty cells, and add some data from fnServerData as attributes of a cell, not the text. Is that possible? The code below is an example of a couple cells. Hope this makes sense. Thanks!

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{first name from database}
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ginjaninja

Nevermind! I found this, which is exactly what I was looking for:
http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/server_side/row_details.html

ginjaninja

aoColumns takes care of the cell classes, but the other part I'm still not sure about. My ajax returns id, name, and other details. I don't want to show the id, but I do want to set the first cell's id to the id returned for that row. Is that possible?

allan

Yes - you can use the fnCreatedCell callback to manipulate the cell.

Allan

ginjaninja

Perfect, thanks! One more question, can I skip a cell or do I need to put an empty val in my JSON? I have 8 columns, but only 4 values for each row.

allan

You can use sDefaultContent to assign default content for a cell that has no information from the data source.

Allan

ginjaninja

You rock!