Feature Request: Allow render to return an HTML element.

danbopes

Right now, when defining columns, you need to return a string, which is added to the column. It would be nice if you could return HTML elements as well, so that you can add your own custom functionalities. For example:

Right now, you'd have to do:

'columns': [
    {
        'data': 'title',
        'render': function(val, _, obj) {
            return '<a href="http://youtu.be/' + obj.videoId + '" target="_blank">' + val + '</a>';
        }
    },

What would be nice, is to do something like:

'columns': [
    {
        'data': 'title',
        'render': function(val, _, obj) {
            //Here I can attach custom handlers, and things that you can't normally do with setting inner/outerHTML.
            return $('<a/>').text(val).attr('href', 'http://youtu.be/' + obj.videoId);
        }
    },

allan

Thanks for the request. This is something that has come up a number of times before and is something I am aware of and thinking about how to introduce into future versions.

Regards,
Allan