Hello, Is there a way to collapse/expand a cell due to it having too much data?

Arkian

I want to see if there is a way to be able to expand/collapse a table if it has too much data, due to extracting data from a CLOB in my DB (all the data is important so I can't really truncate the value) I want to be able to just show a small bit of the data and if desired, expand it by clicking it for example:

Original view:

Col1        |          Col 2             |           Col 3

aaa              bbbbbbbbbbbbb        ccccccc

If I click the row I will see:

Col1        |          Col 2             |           Col 3

aaa              bbbbbbbbbbbbb        ccccccc
                    bbbbbbbbbbbbb
                    bbbbbbbbbbbbb
                    bbbbbbbbbbbbb

Is there such a feature?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Arkian

Arkian

Sorry, the example got screwed up, hopefully the question is well explained without it, if needed to be rewritten please tell me.

Ashbjorn

Hi Arkian,

Your best bet would be to grab a jQuery plugin for truncating the text, encapsulate the text inside a specific span element and then use jQuery to enable the truncate on that specific element.

Hope this helps,

allan

I wrote an ellipsis data renderer plug-in for DataTables a little while back. I still need to write it up in a blog post, but there are comment sin the file explaining how it works.

Allan