Multiple selects (2 part question)

54696d20

Hey Guys,

I know I can hold control and select multiple rows. Is there a way around that to where you don't have to hold control?

The table shows the number of rows selected. Is that information put into an array? I've coded below and it works just fine. Just wondering if you have already designed this.

var searchForCheckeds = $("#studentsTab tbody tr.selected").map(function () { var studentID = $(this).find("td").eq(0).html(); return studentID; }).get();

Only problem with this is that I have some hidden columns that have the Row ID (which I actually want). This code only grabs what's on the page.

Thanks again,
Tim

colin

Hi @54696d20 ,

Yep, see this example here,

Cheers,

Colin

54696d20

Thanks @colin. What about the second part?

The table shows the number of rows selected. Is that information put into an array? I've coded below and it works just fine. Just wondering if you have already designed this.

var searchForCheckeds = $("#studentsTab tbody tr.selected").map(function () { var studentID = $(this).find("td").eq(0).html(); return studentID; }).get();

Only problem with this is that I have some hidden columns that have the Row ID (which I actually want). This code only grabs what's on the page.

Thanks again,

Tim

kthorngren

Colin pointed you to the Select Extension which has API's to both get and set selected rows. You can get the selected rows using the API similar to this:
https://datatables.net/extensions/select/examples/api/get.html

Instead of using count() you would use data() to get the data of all the rows selected.

Kevin

54696d20

Ahh.. Thanks @kthorngren . I was using

.on( 'select', function ( e, dt, type, indexes ) { var rowData = table.rows( indexes ).data().toArray(); }