Request new type of button ("Info" or "Help")

Loren Maxwell

I'm just making a feature request that I think would be a great addition to the other standard buttons.

The new button would be an "Info" or "Help" button that the viewer could click and it would open a collapsible div that would contain some information about the table, a legend, or maybe even directions for editing the data, etc. At any rate, the developer would decide what would be in the collapsible div.

I can achieve that now by adding a div above the table with the additional information and a custom button, but it would be better if I could contain that collapsible portion as part of the DataTable itself and more specifically if I could insert it exactly where I want by just using the dom option, such as:

dom: 'lBHtip'

where H is the Help div.

Anyway -- just a suggestion!

Thanks for the exceptional support!

kthorngren

You can add custom elements to using the dom option like this Custom Toolbar example shows. Is this what you are looking for?

Kevin

Loren Maxwell

Thanks, @kthorngren, I hadn't seen that before.

It seems that do would exactly what I'm looking for.

However I still think a standard "Info" or "Help" button would be nice to have!