Get row

lockedscope

How to access any row from a list of rows returned by dt.rows(".is-something")? Why does not dt.rows(".is-something")[0] work?

kthorngren

The rows() returns a Datatables API instance not the specific data. To get the data you would use rows().data(). The rows().data() example shown shows how to get the first row returned. So you could use something like this:
dt.rows(".is-something").data()[0]

Kevin

lockedscope

That's fine but what if we need to access to the html node(tr) for the row?

allan

Then use the row().node() method .

The API reference is available here.

Allan

lockedscope

So, it is not simply possible after getting rows with dt.rows(".is-something") and select the first or nth. row and get its node()?

kthorngren

Maybe I'm missing something in your question but you could do something like this:

var data = dt.rows(".is-something").nodes();
console.log(data[0]);

The rows() documentation states that it returns an API instance. Then you can use nodes() or data() or other API methods to get the desired data.

Kevin

lockedscope

So, following is my solution.

  var rows = myTable.rows(":odd").eq(0).filter( function ( value, index ) {
  
        return (index == 1 || index == 2);
    } );

  console.dir(myTable.rows(rows));
  console.dir(myTable.rows(rows).nodes());

// Following does not work
  console.dir(rows.nodes());