DataTables row select example

Preamble

It can be quite useful at times to provide the user with the option to select rows in a DataTable. This can be done by simply using a click event to add/remove a class on the table rows. The the selected rows are then provided through the custom function fnGetSelected() for later processing.

Live example

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Initialisation code

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$(document).ready(function() {
    /* Add/remove class to a row when clicked on */
    $('#example tr').click( function() {
        $(this).toggleClass('row_selected');
    } );
     
    /* Init the table */
    var oTable = $('#example').dataTable( );
} );
 
/*
 * I don't actually use this here, but it is provided as it might be useful and demonstrates
 * getting the TR nodes from DataTables
 */
function fnGetSelected( oTableLocal )
{
    return oTableLocal.$('tr.row_selected');
}

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