Adding individual detail with TablePress Extension: Row Details

Hi,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

Unfortunately, I can’t think of a directly usable solution, but in general this could be possible.
For example, one might add another column to the table that serves as an indicator for whether a “+” shall be shown. However, this would require modifications in the JS code of the Extension, which are not that simple ??

So, would maybe something like “foot notes” (in a regular text) work better here, especially as (well, at least in the HR hitter/steroids example) the text would be the same for every row, I guess?

Regards,
Tobias

Tobias,

Thanks for your quick response. Yes there are really two types of examples.

One in which you would have the same detail about every instance (like in the Baseball Steroid example. The other would be like footnotes for a research paper in which each item has a different call-out (like your existing extension but only some of the rows would have the call-out.

For the first example (e.g. steriods), the existing description could be used as footnotes, but would there be a way to only mark some of the rows. I imagine I could hardcode a display: none for every other row but that would be a little awkward if implemented alot.

For the second example, I imagine I could use your existing solution and hardcode every single “non-description” row field with display:none or visibility:hidden. I gave it a go but it did not work.

Oh well.

Hi,

yeah, that makes sense. There are definitely use cases where this would be nice.

I just looked over the Row Details Extension JS code again, and was reminded about how messy it actually is ?? So, at the current stage, adding this would be really difficult.
I’ll however add this to my “ideas” list, so if I find the time to rewrite the Extension, I’ll definitely add this feature!

Regards,
Tobias

Sounds good.

One more thing. To use the code, I have to write:

datatables_row_details=true datatables_row_details_columns=”A” in the shortcode.
Turn on Java in the table.
And add the hidden column to column A. I tried that and for some reason it did not hide Column A.

Hi,

that sounds correct.
Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens, so that I can take a direct look? Thanks!

Regards,
Tobias