cell().render()

Get rendered data for a cell.

Description

DataTables has the ability to use orthogonal data - i.e. different data for the same cell, depending on the operation being performed. A typical example of this is date / time data being used in numeric format (i.e. a timestamp) for sorting, but a complex formatted form for display.

The cell().data() method provides access to the underlying raw data, while this method provides access to the rendered data for each type. It is provided to allow plug-in authors access to the orthogonal data available in the table.

Note that calling this method will evaluate the renderer for the cell, rather than reading the information from cache (see cell().cache() to read from cache and cell().invalidate() to clear cache).

Type

Examples

var table = new DataTable('#myTable');

$('#example').on('click', 'tbody td', function () {
	var data = table.cell(this).render('display');

	console.log(data);
});

var table = new DataTable('#myTable');

$('#example').on('click', 'tbody td', function () {
	var data = table.cell(this).render('sort');

	console.log(data);
});

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