selecting child rows

mcnellagejb

I saw that some people tried to select child rows, but I was wondering if there is a way to adjust the current selection method for select rows on the table to also only allow the user to select one child row. In other words, the user can only select one row at a time including child rows.

rf1234

You can use this on each table including the child table:

select: {
            style: 'single'
        },

https://datatables.net/reference/api/select.style()

allan

Any code used to select child rows is a hack, and you'd need to modify it to be able to select only one child row at a time. Child row selection is not something that the Select extension currently supports.

Allan

mcnellagejb

Thanks it does seem impossible so I will try and figure out a new method. Is there a way to select the parent rows, but not the child rows?

allan

Yes, the Select extension does that.

Allan