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You'll probably need a loop to find all spans with class X and then find the parent rows. In jquery like: $(document).ready(function(){ $('span.X').each(function(index){ var myRow = $(this).closest('tr'); //Do something with myRow !!! myRow.attr('bgColor', 'yellow'); }); }); See working example in JSFiddle

datetime and message is parent row the others is

that effectively contains the parent / children relationships between rows,

Thanks Allen, after reviewing your answer I used editEvent.offsetparent().scrollLeft() where editEvent is the parent of the click event, and it all seems to render correctly now.

tried to have a parent datatable and a lot

Looking at https://datatables.net/reference/option/scrollY , the provided example shows you what I believe the solution to your question is, specifically https://datatables.net/reference/option/scrollCollapse . Set scrollY to height of parent container.

original element, then their parent, etc (until they bubble

already attached to the parent row." Does this mean

of children from the parent rows. You could possibly

the width of the parent panel is hidden since