Best way to add hidden values to cell?

soroushhakami

Scenario: I am sending function_name and function_id via AJAX. The function_name is displayed in a column. When a function_name-cell is clicked, I want to to fire off a javascript with the function_id value. What is the best way to achieve this?

A thought I had was to add it to aoColumns as seen below, and make it invisible somehow. But this seems overly complicated, and it would still technically be two different cells. Is there some way to send some hidden parameter data to each cell perhaps?

Big thanks in advance

[code]
"aoColumns": [
{ "mDataProp": "function_name" }
{ "mDataProp": "function_id" }
]
[/code]

soroushhakami

Perhaps a solution can be made with JQuerys way of storing arbitrary data?
http://api.jquery.com/data/

soroushhakami

Solved this. For how, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7316579/best-way-to-add-hidden-data-to-cell-in-datatables-net/7318834#7318834

allan

The answer in StackOverflow is bob on :-). You can put any properties you want in the object you give to DataTables for the data, and then mDataProp lets you pull some out as you need them. In combination with fnGetData this can be quite powerful.

Allan

soroushhakami

Thanks alot for confirming my solution Allan!