Ability to preserve multi-selected cell data with OS type selector?

venkat_qutrix

Hello Team,
I want a behavior that when I am using selector type 'os' for multiple cells by using shift/ctrl keyword, clicking on one empty cell without shift/ctrl keyword all my previous selection is gone (not preserved). So i have to prevent that behaviour and all my previous selected data should be preserved.please do let me know if these kind of functionality is there in community edition of datatable or enterprise edition of datatable (or) any alternative solution for this limitation. thanks

kthorngren

What you described is the expected behavior of the os option. From the Select doc:

Operating system (os) style - where a single click will select a single item only, deselecting any others that were previously selected, a shift click will select a range of items and a ctrl / cmd click will add and remove items from the selection.

Have you tried the multi option? Here is an example:
https://datatables.net/extensions/select/examples/initialisation/multi.html

Kevin

colin

Hi @venkat_qutrix ,

To do that, you would need to set select.style as multi+shift, see the example here.

Cheers,

Colin

venkat_qutrix

thanks you very much @colin