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• allan Posts: 61,665Questions: 1Answers: 10,096 Site admin

  March 2009

  Hi grobob,
  
  It should work. I've just tried a test with nested tables and it seems to do the job okay. Do you have a link you could post showing the error?
  
  Thanks
  Allan
• grobob Posts: 13Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2009 edited March 2009

  i've made this test case quickly, i hope it's not bugged
  http://lotro.fr/bdd/test
  I got an error, so i suppose i'm doing something wrong (i have no js error on the true url... but more complex)
• allan Posts: 61,665Questions: 1Answers: 10,096 Site admin

  March 2009

  Hi grobob,
  
  Thanks very much for the link. Makes debugging much easier! The issue was in the selectors that I use for tbody, and that your tables use a tbody element. The two were getting mixed together, which resulted in a very confused DataTables... I've fixed this in my development version which I'll be releasing as beta 6 shortly.
  
  Allan
• grobob Posts: 13Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2009

  ok, i removed tbody in the test url, same problem :(
• allan Posts: 61,665Questions: 1Answers: 10,096 Site admin

  March 2009

  Try using beta 6 - I've modified the selectors a bit and hopefully this will fix your issue.
  
  Allan
• grobob Posts: 13Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2009

  perferct ! thanks :)
• lzamora Posts: 3Questions: 0Answers: 0

  September 2009

  Hi Allan,
  Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful plugin! Thanks very much, sir.
  
  I am trying to show a table within a table, and the inner table currently contains both a thead and a tbody tag. It seems to break if the thead tag contains th tags, with the following error:
  Error: oSettings.aoColumns[iIndex] is undefined
  Source File: jquery.dataTables.min.js
  Line: 411
  
  I can prevent the error by using td tags in place of the th tags.
  
  Is there a remedy for this conflict that would allow me to use th tags in the table-within-a-table, or am I forbidden from having additional th tags anywhere?
  
  snippet:
  [code]
  ...
  
  
  
  
  Name
  
  
  
  
  Luis Zamora
  
  
  
  
  ...
  [/code]
  
  Thank you,
  -Luis
• allan Posts: 61,665Questions: 1Answers: 10,096 Site admin

  September 2009

  Hi Luis,
  
  Excellent catch - thank you for finding that bug. The problem was in the calculation algorithm used for determining the width of the column. bAutoWidth:false would get around this problem! I've got a fix, and it will be in the next release of DataTables. If you want to stick it into your local copy replace line 3755 ( "var oNodes = $("td", nCalcTmp);") with:
  
  [code]
  var oNodes = $("tr:eq(0)>td", nCalcTmp);
  [/code]
  And that should do the trick nicely.
  
  I've also taken the opportunity to put a couple of other checks in for inner tables, to make sure they don't confuse DataTables :-)
  
  Regards,
  Allan
• lzamora Posts: 3Questions: 0Answers: 0

  September 2009

  "And that should do the trick nicely." Indeed it does!
  
  Thank you kindly,
  -Luis
• allan Posts: 61,665Questions: 1Answers: 10,096 Site admin

  September 2009

  A minor correction here actually :-)
  
  It should be:
  
  [code]
  var oNodes = $("tr:eq(1)>td", nCalcTmp);
  [/code]
  Otherwise the auto width calculation goes out the window...
  
  Allan