Group/Rowspan using data from data attribute as source

jithinwilfred

Is it possible to group based on data attribute (such as data-group="subgroup1") like that.
My requirement is to hide the group data on data attribute and show a different text on table cell

eg <td data-group="subgroup1">Subgroup</td>

please refer: https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/29319/new-rowsgroup-plugin-merge-cells-vertically-rowspan/p1

Thanks in advance

colin

I answered on that other thread - no need to post the same question twice.

jithinwilfred

Thanks @colin

jithinwilfred

Consider a scenario when a class room contains 2 students named Peter and we want to show the sports played and corresponding rating, here we want to group by students name, but since the text (Peter) is the same the data table would group all Peter together

Expected result

Name                      Sport           Rating

                         Cricket            09
Peter
                         Football           08


                         Cricket            07
Peter                    Tennis             08
                         Hockey             09

Actual Result

Name                      Sport           Rating

                         Cricket             09
                         Football            08
Peter                    Cricket             07
                         Tennis              08
                         Hockey              09

@colin could you suggest any help. thanks in advance