AutoFill - Losing Functionality

traslerk

Hi, I've just started with the DataTables and is proving an excellention solution for my application - so thank you!

I've just added the AutoFill to 10.8. When my page first loads it works.

I have functionality to add an input and then update the cell (and datatable data) on the click of certain <td>'s

This is on the on click of certain cells

$(document).on('click', '#myTable td.myCell', function (e) {
        openInput($(this));
    });

Here is the code..

function openInput(cell) {
    var value = cell.text();
    cell.empty();
    $("<input>")
        .attr('type', 'text')
        .val(value)
        .blur(function (e) {
            closeInput(cell);
        })
        .appendTo(cell)
        .focus();
}

The closeInput function validates the input and then removes the input by calling this function

// update the cell value and and the dataTable cell (the update cell can be done on cells without an input so needs is(":input"))
function updateCell(cell, value) {
    value = value.toUpperCase();
    if (cell.is(":input")) {
        cell = cell.parent();
    }
    cell.empty().text(value);
    table.cell(cell).data(value);
}

All this works fine, but I lose the functionality of the AutoFill.

How do I either prevent the datatables from losing functionality of AutoFill or add the functionality on again?

allan

Could you link to the page showing the issue please? I must confess I don't immediately know what the issue is there. That looks like it should work.

You shouldn't need cell.empty().text(value); - you could drop that. DataTables will do it for you.

Allan

traslerk

Hi Allan

Sorry, I've only just seen this as been away on holiday and thought i'd get an email confirmation about a reply so apologies for not checking sooner.

I can't send you a link to the site as it's on a work server.

I've still not managed to get this working and no idea why, it works fine until I click a <td> which creates and removes an input.

allan

Are you able to reproduce the error on JSFiddle or http://live.datatables.net ?

Allan

traslerk

I'll have a go at it and get back to you,