How to display column values

gouldie

Hi all,

I feel a bit stupid asking these questions since I have covered literally hunderds of posts looking for help and it seems everybody knows what they are doing except me.

I have implemented a table using:

$('#example20').DataTable();

I added a checkbox as the first column, so what I wanted to do now was upon pressing a button, I would be able to get all the values of column b with selected checkboxes.

Let alone check boxes, I can't even figure out how to alert() all the values of column b. I've read the API but can't find anything for just reading the values of a selected column.

taking this as an example:
http://live.datatables.net/viyiyaco/1/edit

How do you read all the name column values? Is there a function in datatables that does it for you, or must you use jquery to find it?

Also can you do a general post or do you have to use ajax to submit it to the database?

tangerine

There's an example of using DataTables with form inputs:

http://datatables.net/examples/api/form.html

gouldie

Hi I did try that, but the serilaize option only takes inputs, selects for forms which might not be exactly what I'm looking for.

As you can see from the link I provided you, the table has one checkbox field and the rest are all data.

My question was how do you alert values from columns that contain NO form inputs

tangerine

My apologies - for some reason I had remembered that link as being an example of checkboxes. I need to upgrade my memory....

gouldie

No problem :), it was abit of both, the first thing I was looking to understand first is how to obtain the values in the non form columns

gouldie

anyone able to help?