Preamble

A typical interaction to want to perform with a fixed column, is an index column. A method for how this can be achieved with FixedColumns is shown in this example, building on the index column example for DataTables. Also shown in this example is how the fixed column can be styled with CSS to show it more prominently.

Live example

Initialisation code

$(document).ready( function () {
	var oTable = $('#example').dataTable( {
		"sScrollX": "100%",
		"sScrollXInner": "150%",
		"bScrollCollapse": true,
		"fnDrawCallback": function ( oSettings ) {
			/* Need to redo the counters if filtered or sorted */
			if ( oSettings.bSorted || oSettings.bFiltered ) {
				for ( var i=0, iLen=oSettings.aiDisplay.length ; i<iLen ; i++ ) {
					this.fnUpdate( i+1, oSettings.aiDisplay[i], 0, false, false );
				}
			}
		},
		"aoColumnDefs": [
			{ "bSortable": false, "sClass": "index", "aTargets": [ 0 ] }
		],
		"aaSorting": [[ 1, 'asc' ]]
	} );
	new FixedColumns( oTable );
} );

Documentation

• Usage
• API / parameters

Basic examples

• Basic demo of FixedColumns with zero initialisation
• Fix the left and right columns in place
• Index column attached to side of the table
• Index column, but with Y scrolling and no pagination
• Two columns fixed in place
• Fix the right column in place
• Speeding up row height matching with CSS
• jQuery UI themed table with FixedColumns

Advanced examples

• Using ROWSPAN with FixedColumns
• Server-side processing with FixedColumns
• Individual column filtering
• Setting the fixed column width and resizing the table
• Setting the fixed column width with relative sizing
• Row grouping by grouping like rows in the fixed column
• Row grouping by inserting a grouping row
FixedColumns and DataTables © Allan Jardine 2011.