In the 'Form inputs' example: how to open up the cells for editing when the page is rendered.

jhenderson

In the 'Form inputs' example how did you open up the cells for editing when the page is rendered? In the Forms Example the rows are already 'opened up' when the page is displayed. I see no where that tells how to do that. In most examples you have to Click on the field to open it up. I would like to have them already opened for editing.

jLinux

Are you talking about this?

If so, im not sure what you mean by

how did you open up the cells for editing when the page is rendered

The cells just contained input and select, nothing was "opened up" per say..

Maybe I didn't understand you though, or if the example is wrong, link to the proper example, or at least provide more detail

jhenderson

Your link to http://datatables.net/examples/api/form.html is correct. Maybe I am just not finding it, but I don't see anywhere else in the examples, that shows in-line editing with the data cells already 'opened' (editable, populated) . Typically you have to click on a row or cell to edit the value. I see in the example's html has something like this..

<td><input type="text" id="row-3-age" name="row-3-age" value="66"></td>
<td><input type="text" id="row-3-position" name="row-3-position" value="Junior"></td>
<td><select size="1" id="row-3-office" name="row-3-office"> etc. ...

I guess I'm not sure how to get those inputs into the datatable so I can submit them like a form.

jLinux

I think youre talking about the Editor plugin for DataTables..

jhenderson

I appreciate your help. I am a backend java developer with little knowledge on jquery. I was able to reproduce the example by usesing something like this

               "data": "key",
                    "render": function ( data, type, full, meta ) {
                        return '<input type="checkbox" name="key_row[1]" value="'+ data+'" />';

However I can't figure out how to submit the input values back to the server. Would there be some kind of ajax call back to server? Could you possibly provide an example?