Get field for cell

sliekens

Is there a way to get a field name or field instance for a <td> element or in fact any object that looks like a cell-selector?

allan

Yes - column().dataSrc(). Assuming that the column data point (columns.data) matches the Editor field data point.

Allan

sliekens

Ah yes, thank you!

sliekens

Unfortunately that method ignores columns.editField.
Any way to get a column's editField (if any) from the API?

PS: I'm trying to get the field inside a preOpen handler after calling inline(). So I have a hunch that Editor already knows which field will be edited. I just don't know how to pull that information out of the API.

allan

It does. I'm afraid there isn't actually a public API for that at the moment. You would need to use table.settings()[0].aoColumns[i].editField to get that property at the moment. It would be best to create a plug-in API method for it. Even better would be to have a plug-in method that would check for that parameter, if defined, return that, if not return column().dataSrc().

Allan