Use DataTables in Mediawiki Table

kikmann

Hello,

forgive me if I post a question to which there is an obvious answer, but I was not able to find an answer and get things working in my mediawiki for 2 days now. I'm using mediawiki v1.22 and would like to pimp all tables using DataTables the same way. I've installed DataTables and it is known to the RessourceManager (as in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DataTables).

I now added this code to the Common.js (which is executed I checked with the alerts):

[code]
$(document).ready(function() {
/*alert("script loaded");*/
mw.loader.using( 'ext.datatables', function() {
/*alert("datatables loaded");*/
$('#example').dataTable( {
"sScrollX": "50%",
"sScrollXInner": "950%",
"bScrollCollapse": true,
} );
});
});
[/code]

But my table in a test wiki page

[code]
{| id="example"
|Orange
|Apfel
|-
|Brot
|Torte
|-
|Butter
|Eis
|}
[/code]

does not seem to be touched by DataTables. Is it because of missing thead/tbody support from mediawiki or am I missing something here ?

Thanks!

Chris

allan

Does MediaWiki create an HTML table which matches DataTables prerequisites: http://datatables.net/usage/#prerequisites ?

Allan

kikmann

Hi Allan,

Mediawiki does unfortunetaly not support thead and tbody which is required by datatables. But since DataTables is very popular extension for Mediawiki, I thought there would be a way to get around this issue.

Chris

tangerine

@Chris - I might need this myself one day - have you asked the Mediawiki extension people about it?

kikmann

No, not yet. Since DT is a popular extension to MW, I assumed this to work somehow and me to be to dumb to find out :)

tangerine

[quote]I assumed this to work somehow and me to be to dumb to find out [/quote]
I recognize that scenario....