Use disabled features?

esbenboye

I'm currently working on a table, where i want to disable the default searchbox and the default ordering buttons and replace them by some custom ones outside the table. I've disabled the features, by setting info, paging, searching and order to false when creating the table.
This is done to prevent the default searchbox, info and paging info from showing. All I'm really is interested in, is to let the table look like a regular table, and then be able to control the table through the api.

Unfortunatly, setting these properties to false, seems to disable the functionality entirely, so I can't use $("#targetTable").DataTable().order(10,'desc').draw() or $("#targetTable").DataTable().column(0).search('here be search').draw();

Like I said, what i'm trying to pretty much disable the default boxes and listeners, and then make my own, entirely controlled through the api.

Any thoughts?

sliekens

Don't disable the features entirely. Instead, override the dom so that only the features that you want to keep are rendered.

esbenboye

Fantastic! - This was exactly what I was looking for to disable the default input.

Now I just need to figure out how to disable the sorting-listeners on the header of the table.

Any input that?

esbenboye

After some digging around, I found this one;
https://datatables.net/reference/option/columns.orderable#Comments