If you are targeting desktop users for your application you may wish to have the Editor display make more use of the space available on large monitors. This can be particularly useful for cases where you use complex input controls such as the Quill WYSIWYG plug-in for Editor.
By default the Editor display is relatively compact, but this can be easily modified using CSS. This example simply shows the lightbox container being set to take almost 100% window width - click the CSS tab below the table to see the CSS used.
You may wish to use the multi-column layout option with this type of styling.
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 51 52 53 54 | var editor; // use a global for the submit and return data rendering in the examples$(document).ready(function() { editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( { ajax: "/api/staff", 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" } ] } ); $('#example').DataTable( { dom: "Bfrtip", ajax: "/api/staff", 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