Events for createdCell, createdRow & rowCallback Callbacks
Events for createdCell, createdRow & rowCallback Callbacks
Jamaur
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Is there a particular reason why columns.createdCell, createdRow & rowCallback do not have dedicated events like createdCell, createdRow or row?
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those options are effectively the hooks to the events.
Yes, the reason is performance. The event mechanism currently used (jQuery) is wonderfully flexible, but performance isn't great when there are a large number of events needing to be triggered. Consider for example a table with 10'000 rows and 5 columns, that 50'000 cell created events and 10'000 row created events.
I plan to do something about this for the next major version of DataTables as I do want to have events for these actions - update and delete as well, but I'm not 100% certain what yet!
Allan