Change background colour of a datatable cell

aCoradatatbl

Hi
i'm using this syntax to get the cell contents:
var idrow = dTblOverview.row("#"+rowPk);
var cellContent = dTblOverview.cell( idrow, 6 ).data();

I would like to elaborate on this and change the cell (cellContent ) background colour using the same syntax as its post-datatable initialisation and being called from another part of the script.

thanks in advance ...

colin

Hi @aCoradatatbl ,

If you use node(), then you can change it easily with jQuery, something like:

$(dTblOverview.cell(2,2).node()).css({'color':'red'})

Cheers,

Colin

aCoradatatbl

Thanks for the response Colin,
Node api? that requires editor doesn't it or am i reading wrong? Im not using editor just datatable with the buttons api - itried something similat to that syntax like:

dTblOverview.cell( 5, 6 ).css('color', 'yellow')

is there a datatable function which can reference the cell object to achieve this??

thanks ...

kthorngren

Colin gave the wrong link, it should be cell().node(). It is a Datatables API. Did you try Colin's suggestion?

Kevin

aCoradatatbl

Ahhah, Yes that worked Kevin, didn't actually try first time since it said Editor API required - thanks for the heads-up.

Cheers