How to get "field-name" of clicked column?

[Deleted User]

I initialize my table columns like this: { data: 'field1' }, {data: 'field2' }, .... How can I get the field name (field1, field2) of the cell that is clicked? Here is what I have so far...

$('#phoneTable').on('click', 'tbody td:not(:first-child)',
function (e) {
    var idx = phoneTable.cell(this).index().column;
    console.log('clicked col # ' + idx);
    phoneTableEditor.inline(this);
});

[Deleted User]

This seems like such a simple request. Is there no way to do this? I guess I can just save my own array of fields and then use the index that I found. However, what happens if the user re-orders the columns? The cell().index().column won't work there.

allan

Hi,

There currently isn't a public API for doing this I'm afraid. In the "private" settings object you can read settings.aoColumns[ idx ].mData which would give you this information.

I totally agree that this is feature that is lacking and it is something that I will look into adding to the API soon as I stumbled across this myself yesterday as well.

Allan

allan

Committed here. Will be in 1.10.3.

Allan