Hide first column, but access the data

tonelm2

What Im looking at doing is hiding the first column of data from a table, which is easy by doing:-
[code]
var oTable = $('#example').dataTable();
oTable.fnSetColumnVis( 0, false );
[/code]

However I still want to be able to access the data in that column to load the row:-
[code]
$("#example tbody tr").click( function( e ) {
var a = $(this).closest('tr').find('td:first').text();
alert(a);
});
[/code]

Currently however my code just returns the first column data instead of the hidden column data. Does anyone have any idea of how to hide the data but have it still visable?

Thank you

allan

Use fnGetData to get the data from a row.

Allan