Need a general message pane that works with fixed header

pmconsulting

I need to provide messages to users as they navigate the datatable.

Each row in my data table is a product and I have used the row select function to indicate which rows a user will be ordering. Because it is not obvious to the user that highlighted rows have been added to their order, I would also like to display confirmation text that the user can either dismiss with a button, or will animate closed after a fixed period.

The message area should appear directly above the headers for the table and should work the same way when fixed headers are used. Then, no matter where the user is in the table, the message would animate open at the top of the fixed headers to display the message and then either close by itself after a reasonable period, or allow for a manual dismiss button.

I think that alert messages would be irritating and modal dialogs seem excessive. If the message can appear and stay until a user decides to dismiss it, I think it would make a better GUI.

Although it's easy to fix this type of dialog to the top of a page with JS, it's quite a bit more complicated when using fixed headers on the datatable. If this was a feature of datatables, it would greatly simplify things.

Does anyone have any suggestions or examples?

kthorngren

Maybe this thread will help:
https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/126788/#Comment_126788

Kevin