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Cannot use colspan in tbody

Cannot use colspan in tbody

chaidychaidy Posts: 2Questions: 0Answers: 0
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How can we use colsapn in tbody of table

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  • chaidychaidy Posts: 2Questions: 0Answers: 0

    Thank in advance for help...

  • jLinuxjLinux Posts: 981Questions: 73Answers: 75
    edited October 2015

    https://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/complex_header.html

    First thing found on google for "Datatables + colspan" ;-)

  • allanallan Posts: 65,822Questions: 1Answers: 10,951 Site admin

    You can't use colspan or rowspan in DataTables' tbody. It simply isn't supported at this time - sorry.

    Allan

  • that_dirk_guythat_dirk_guy Posts: 2Questions: 0Answers: 0

    I found a hack using invisible cells. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/34012324/1104244

  • jLinuxjLinux Posts: 981Questions: 73Answers: 75
    edited December 2015

    Interesting... i havent seen that before

  • allanallan Posts: 65,822Questions: 1Answers: 10,951 Site admin

    That's cunning - I'm impressed that browsers render that correctly. It should be used with caution though, since it isn't valid HTML - for example run the following through the W3C validator:

    <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>123</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
 <td colspan="3">Wide column</td>
 <td style="display: none;"></td>
 <td style="display: none;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>Normal column</td>
 <td>Normal column</td>
 <td>Normal column</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

    Also, I suspect odd things might start happening if you use the column visibility options in DataTables.

    Allan

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