Get header columns (also hidden)

tobiascapin

Hi, I'm using this example: http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/row_details.html to add a details panel. I would like to get the header's labels to build automatically key-val couples.
I found oTable.fnGetData() but this doesn't work for header and, moreover, I can not use the dom inspection $("#table thead th") because if I hide some columns I lose that header. How to solve? Surely datatables has this informations inside its data.

Thanks

allan

It does, it just doesn't expose it via an API in 1.9.4-. So two options:

1. you could use `fnSettings().aoColumns[i].sTitle` to get the title for column `i` - not really recommended since the settings object might change between versions

2. Use DataTables 1.10, which is pre-beta. It does present this information via the API:

[code]
var table = $('#example').DataTable(); // note the capital D
table.column( i ).header(); // gives the TH/TD cell for column i from which you can get the content
[/code]

I might add a `column().title()` API method into 1.10 thinking about it...

Allan