Custom template: All columns
If you are writing a custom template, you might not know what columns a table will have. In such a case CardView provides a data-dtcv-for
attribute that can be set to "columns" only (other values might become available in future).
When CardView finds that attribute in a template, it will duplicate the element it is on for each column in the table, using the content for each cell. It
uses data-dtcv-title and data-dtcv-dataSrc attributes on elements inside it to determine where the title / data should be placed.
Note that this example also makes use of data-dt-row and data-dt-column which are automatically filled in with indexes for the
rows / columns being displayed. These can be very useful when interacting with the DataTables API.
| Name | Position | Office | Extn. | Start date | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Office | Extn. | Start date | Salary |
- Javascript
- HTML
- CSS
- Ajax
- Server-side script
- Comments
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
new DataTable('#example', {
ajax: '/examples/ajax/data/objects.txt',
cardView: {
mode: 'cards',
template: '#cardView'
},
columns: [
{ data: 'name' },
{ data: 'position' },
{ data: 'office' },
{ data: 'extn' },
{ data: 'start_date' },
{ data: 'salary' }
]
});
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:
This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:
div.cardView {
border: var(--dtcv-card_border);
border-radius: var(--dtcv-card_border-radius);
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 9999px var(--dtcv-card_background);
padding: var(--dtcv-card_padding);
}
The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:
This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.
The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.