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"shortcut icon" type=
"image/ico" href=
"http://www.datatables.net/favicon.ico">
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"viewport" content=
"initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2.0">
8 <title>FixedColumns example - Basic initialisation
</title>
9 <link rel=
"stylesheet" type=
"text/css" href=
"../../../media/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
10 <link rel=
"stylesheet" type=
"text/css" href=
"../css/dataTables.fixedColumns.css">
11 <link rel=
"stylesheet" type=
"text/css" href=
"../../../examples/resources/syntax/shCore.css">
12 <link rel=
"stylesheet" type=
"text/css" href=
"../../../examples/resources/demo.css">
13 <style type=
"text/css" class=
"init">
15 /* Ensure that the demo table scrolls */
16 th, td { white-space: nowrap; }
17 div.dataTables_wrapper {
23 <script type=
"text/javascript" language=
"javascript" src=
"../../../media/js/jquery.js"></script>
24 <script type=
"text/javascript" language=
"javascript" src=
"../../../media/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
25 <script type=
"text/javascript" language=
"javascript" src=
"../js/dataTables.fixedColumns.js"></script>
26 <script type=
"text/javascript" language=
"javascript" src=
"../../../examples/resources/syntax/shCore.js"></script>
27 <script type=
"text/javascript" language=
"javascript" src=
"../../../examples/resources/demo.js"></script>
28 <script type=
"text/javascript" language=
"javascript" class=
"init">
31 $(document).ready(function() {
32 var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
38 new $.fn.dataTable.FixedColumns( table );
45 <body class=
"dt-example">
46 <div class=
"container">
48 <h1>FixedColumns example
<span>Basic initialisation
</span></h1>
51 <p>When displaying a table which scrolls along the x-axis, it can sometimes be useful to the end user for the left most column to be fixed in place, if it shows
52 grouping, index or similar information. This is basically the same idea as 'freeze columns' in Excel. This can be achieved with the FixedColumns plug-in for
53 DataTables, as shown below.
</p>
55 <p>Note that FixedColumns is suitable only for use with the scrolling features in
<a href=
"http://datatables.net">DataTables
</a>. If you want to achieve a similar
56 effect without scrolling enabled, please checkout
<a href=
"http://datatables.net/plug-ins">FixedHeader
</a>, also for DataTables.
</p>
58 <p>FixedColumns is initialised using the constructor
<code>new $.fn.dataTable.FixedColumns();
</code> - shown below.
</p>
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708 <li class=
"active">Javascript
</li>
712 <li>Server-side script
</li>
717 <p>The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
</p><code class=
"multiline language-js">$(document).ready(function() {
718 var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
719 scrollY:
"300px
",
721 scrollCollapse: true,
724 new $.fn.dataTable.FixedColumns( table );
727 <p>In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
</p>
730 <li><a href=
"../../../media/js/jquery.js">../../../media/js/jquery.js
</a></li>
731 <li><a href=
"../../../media/js/jquery.dataTables.js">../../../media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
</a></li>
732 <li><a href=
"../js/dataTables.fixedColumns.js">../js/dataTables.fixedColumns.js
</a></li>
737 <p>The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:
</p>
742 <p>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
743 additional CSS used is shown below:
</p><code class=
"multiline language-css">/* Ensure that the demo table scrolls */
744 th, td { white-space: nowrap; }
745 div.dataTables_wrapper {
751 <p>The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:
</p>
754 <li><a href=
"../../../media/css/jquery.dataTables.css">../../../media/css/jquery.dataTables.css
</a></li>
755 <li><a href=
"../css/dataTables.fixedColumns.css">../css/dataTables.fixedColumns.css
</a></li>
760 <p>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
765 <p>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
766 processing scripts can be written in any language, using
<a href=
"//datatables.net/manual/server-side">the protocol described in the DataTables
767 documentation
</a>.
</p>
775 <div class=
"gradient"></div>
778 <h2>Other examples
</h2>
781 <div class=
"toc-group">
782 <h3><a href=
"./index.html">Examples
</a></h3>
783 <ul class=
"toc active">
784 <li><a href=
"./left_right_columns.html">Left and right fixed columns
</a></li>
785 <li class=
"active"><a href=
"./simple.html">Basic initialisation
</a></li>
786 <li><a href=
"./two_columns.html">Multiple fixed columns
</a></li>
787 <li><a href=
"./right_column.html">Right column only
</a></li>
788 <li><a href=
"./rowspan.html">Complex headers
</a></li>
789 <li><a href=
"./colvis.html">ColVis integration
</a></li>
790 <li><a href=
"./server-side-processing.html">Server-side processing
</a></li>
791 <li><a href=
"./css_size.html">CSS row sizing
</a></li>
792 <li><a href=
"./size_fixed.html">Assigned column width
</a></li>
793 <li><a href=
"./size_fluid.html">Fluid column width
</a></li>
794 <li><a href=
"./col_filter.html">Individual column filtering
</a></li>
795 <li><a href=
"./bootstrap.html">Bootstrap
</a></li>
796 <li><a href=
"./index_column.html">Index column
</a></li>
801 <div class=
"epilogue">
802 <p>Please refer to the
<a href=
"http://www.datatables.net">DataTables documentation
</a> for full information about its API properties and methods.
<br>
803 Additionally, there are a wide range of
<a href=
"http://www.datatables.net/extras">extras
</a> and
<a href=
"http://www.datatables.net/plug-ins">plug-ins
</a>
804 which extend the capabilities of DataTables.
</p>
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"copyright">DataTables designed and created by
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</a> © 2007-
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"http://www.datatables.net/mit">MIT license
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