jquery datatable hide column by name

sarveshkushwaha

Hi All ,

I really love this plugin ..its simply awesome. i am new to it .. so please tell me how can i hide whole column by its name . tried to google this but just found following code and similar things : -
this.fnSetColumnVis(5, true);

Please help , Thanks :) .

allan

What do you mean "its name"? Are you using sName or are you using the HTML content as the name / title? Eitherway, you need to convert the 'name' into a column index, which you pass into fnSetColumnVis .

Allan

sarveshkushwaha

Hi allan thanks for replying ...by its name means ..can i hide a column by its column name ???

allan

As I asked, what do you mean by its name? Do you mean the HTML contents of the header cell? If so, then yes - use jQuery to get the cell's index using the `:contains()` selector and the `index()` method.

sarveshkushwaha

Thanks allan :)