Bootstrap is a popular framework library that quickly providing a unified look-and-feel for web-applications. Through Editor's abilities to be extensively customised and Bootstrap integration for DataTables you can have a beautiful Bootstrap styled interface for your tables and Editor in virtually no time!
This example shows Bootstrap integration with DataTables and its two components, Buttons and Editor. The DataTables integration files, which set the
configuration properties required for Bootstrap styling, are in the examples/resources/bootstrap directory of this
package. With those files included, simply create Editor and DataTables as you normally would, and you get a table styled like that shown below.
| Name | Position | Office | Extn. | Start date | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Office | Extn. | Start date | Salary |
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
var editor; // use a global for the submit and return data rendering in the examples
$(document).ready(function() {
editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( {
ajax: "../php/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"
}
]
} );
var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
lengthChange: false,
ajax: "../php/staff.php",
columns: [
{ data: null, render: function ( data, type, row ) {
// Combine the first and last names into a single table field
return data.first_name+' '+data.last_name;
} },
{ data: "position" },
{ data: "office" },
{ data: "extn" },
{ data: "start_date" },
{ data: "salary", render: $.fn.dataTable.render.number( ',', '.', 0, '$' ) }
],
select: true
} );
// Display the buttons
new $.fn.dataTable.Buttons( table, [
{ extend: "create", editor: editor },
{ extend: "edit", editor: editor },
{ extend: "remove", editor: editor }
] );
table.buttons().container()
.appendTo( $('.col-sm-6:eq(0)', table.table().container() ) );
} );
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:
This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:
The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:
This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.
The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.