Editor has three different Editor modes:
Inline editing, as shown demonstrated in this section, is designed to allow rapid editing of individual fields in a table. The most common use case is to simply click on the cell you want to edit and then hit return once the edit is complete. This will save the data and the row will be immediately updated.
This example shows inline editing on all data columns in the table. The primary editing interface of Editor is also still available, with row selection being
made available by clicking in the first column (the checkbox shown is provided by Select's select-checkbox column class). In this manner you get the benefits of rapid editing as well as the ability to create, edit and delete full
records very easily.
Inline editing in Editor is activated through the use of the inline() API method. Simply call the method and pass in the cell you want to edit as the first parameter. Editor will attempt to
automatically determine which parameter is to be edited. Alternatively, or if Editor is unable to determine the field automatically, use the second parameter to
tell it which field to edit.
| First name | Last name | Position | Office | Start date | Salary |
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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 | var editor; // use a global for the submit and return data rendering in the examples$(document).ready(function() { editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( { ajax: "../../controllers/staff.php", table: "#example", fields: [ { label: "First name:", name: "first_name" }, { label: "Last name:", name: "last_name" }, { label: "Position:", name: "position" }, { label: "Office:", name: "office" }, { label: "Extension:", name: "extn" }, { label: "Start date:", name: "start_date", type: "datetime" }, { label: "Salary:", name: "salary" } ] } ); // Activate an inline edit on click of a table cell $('#example').on( 'click', 'tbody td:not(:first-child)', function (e) { editor.inline( this ); } ); $('#example').DataTable( { dom: "Bfrtip", ajax: "../../controllers/staff.php", order: [[ 1, 'asc' ]], columns: [ { data: null, defaultContent: '', className: 'select-checkbox', orderable: false }, { data: "first_name" }, { data: "last_name" }, { data: "position" }, { data: "office" }, { data: "start_date" }, { data: "salary", render: $.fn.dataTable.render.number( ',', '.', 0, '$' ) } ], select: { style: 'os', selector: 'td:first-child' }, buttons: [ { extend: "create", editor: editor }, { extend: "edit", editor: editor }, { extend: "remove", editor: editor } ] } );} ); |
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
Editor submits and retrieves information by Ajax requests. The two blocks below show the data that Editor submits and receives, to and from the server. This is updated live as you interact with Editor so you can see what is submitted.
The following shows the data that has been submitted to the server when a request is made to add, edit or delete data from the table.
// No data yet submittedThe following shows the data that has been returned by the server in response to the data submitted on the left and is then acted upon.
// No data yet received