Complex headers (rowspan and colspan) Using JSON

swks

Hi,

I'm trying to achieve complex headers like this:

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

But I'm passing data via JSON from a Java back-end. I have something like this:

t.dataTable({
    data: JSON.parse(rows),
    columns: JSON.parse(headers),
    select: true
});

Can anyone tell me how to structure the JSON "headers" Objects in order to achieve this effect?

At the moment headers are "Flat" in the sense that I simply pass in a json object that is a series of 1:1 mappings of data to column headers as follows:

[

{"mData":"id","sTitle":"Id"},

{"mData":"country_code","sTitle":"Country Code"},

{"mData":"title","sTitle":"Title"},

{"mData":"pubdata","sTitle":"Published Data"}

]

S

allan

Hi,

This question has already been asked a number of times and there are other discussion threads about it you would find with the search tool at the top of the page. Example thread.

Allan