[Koha-devel] DataTables - using class names in aTargets

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

+1


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:35 PM, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>wrote:

> +1
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:34:55 -0800
> From: Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>
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> Subject: [Koha-devel] DataTables - using class names in aTargets
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> Hi,
>
> There have been a fair number of bugs filed for fixing table sorting as
> columns get added to or removed from tables.  At root, they stem from our
> current habit of referring to columns by numeric position in aoColumns and
> aoColumnDefs/aTargets, e.g.,
>
> { "aTargets": [ 1, 2 ], "sType": "natural"  }
>
> and
>
>             "aoColumns": [
>                 { "sType": "title-string" },{ "sType": "html" },null,{
> "sType": "title-string" },null,null,null,null,null,null[% IF (
> exports_enabled ) %],null[% END %]
>             ],
>
> However, the documentation for DataTables says that aTargets doesn't have
> to
> be just an array of integers; it can also be "a string - class name will be
> matched on the TH for the column".
>
> To reduce the risk of silly columns-sorting bugs, I suggest that we adopt a
> practice of using descriptive CSS class names for table headers and using
> the class names in aoColumnsDefs/aTarget specifications, and dropping the
> use of aoColumns.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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