Showing sub-rows

clifford_ives

Is there a way to display a recursive relationship within the table? For example, you want to show rows of data that are children of another row within the grid. It should be visibly easy to differentiate between what row is a parent and what row(s) is a child. Any help would be great.

thanks.
cliff

fbas

DataTables natively supports "drill-down" rows, this parent-child relationship, but it is only 1 level deep, not anything recursive.

http://www.datatables.net/blog/Drill-down_rows

it works by opening a new row with a single cell. you can put arbitrary HTML in the cell. I suppose you could put another DataTable into that cell and hack your own recursive tree.

view of example page above and debugger view of html:
http://i.imgur.com/VW25b.png

clifford_ives

Thanks for the response. Looks like I am going to try to hack the drill down rows in order to simulate a recursive relationship.

fbas

DataTables might not be the product for you. There are other tree-view products out there that might be better.