This example shows Editor's built in options to alter the display of field input elements. By default, Editor makes extensive use of white-space to present a
simple and clean looking form to an end user, particularly on larger monitors, but for more complex field types this can actually distract from the elegance of the
form as input controls can be squashed together (a toolbar on a WYSIWYG input for example). It can also be useful to provide additional space for elements where a
large amount of data is expected to be entered, such as with a textarea input.
The styling options can be added by using the fields.className option and two options are available:
full - Use all of the space available to the right of the label for the input element (on larger screens, by
default Editor uses white-space to present a simple looking form).block - Show the input element below the label, making use of that additional space to show a larger input
control.The full and block options can both be used on the field to combine their
effects.
This example shows two fields without the additional classes, two fields with each individually and one with both.
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 | 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 (<code>full</code>):', name: 'position', 'className': 'full' }, { label: 'Office (<code>block</code>):', name: 'office', 'className': 'block' }, { label: 'Extension (<code>full block</code>):', name: 'extn', 'className': 'full block' } ] } ); $('#example').DataTable( { dom: "Bfrtip", ajax: "../../controllers/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, 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