Display large table using html and hide columns using javascript

Show / hide columns dynamically

This example shows how you can make use of the column().visible() API method to dynamically show and hide columns in a table. Also included here is scrolling, just to show it enabled with this API method, although it’s not required for the API function to work.

In addition, groups of columns can be shown and hidden at the same time using the columns() method to select multiple columns and then using the columns().visible() method to set their state.

If you are looking for a more complete column visibility interaction controls, the Buttons extension for DataTables provides a comprehensive module for column visibility control.

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• Javascript
• HTML
• CSS
• Ajax
• Server-side script
• Comments

The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:

The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:

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 additional CSS used is shown below:

The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:

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 loaded.

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 processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.

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• Zero configuration
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• Multi-column ordering
• Multiple tables
• Hidden columns
• Complex headers (rowspan and colspan)
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Advanced initialisation

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• Page length options
• Multiple table control elements
• Complex headers with column visibility
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Internationalisation

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Show Hide table columns using Javascript

Usually we end up creating large table which will overflow the browser window especially when we have many columns. Users will be having difficulty in viewing the columns as it will be very big. They will need to scroll browser window horizontally in order to view all columns. This simple script will be very helpful to display large HTML tables with lot of columns that will not fit in a normal browser screen. You can choose to hide/show columns with ease using javascript. I have also included some CSS styling on the table.

I am using CSS display property ‘NONE’ to hide columns and for showing them i used ‘TABLE-CELL’ property instead of ‘block’ as the latter might have some issues while displaying hidden columns especially when you have added style to the table.

You can modify the code below to hide specific columns by simply giving column number from which you need to start hiding. For example if you have 17 columns and you need to hide from 9th one, Just give variable column_hide_from as 9. The script will automatically hide columns starting from the 9th .

It is up to the user whether they need to see the whole table or just part of it, In order to display the complete table all you have to do is click on the button with the name SHOW. This will call the javascript function named show_me() and display the columns accordingly. If you need to hide columns again then click on button with name HIDE and that will in turn call function hide_me().

You can find sample HTML CSS table below along with a button., And onload we are loading javascript function to hide the columns inside table automatically when page loads.

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#users < font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; >#users td, #users th < font-size: 1em; border: 1px solid #000; padding: 3px 7px 2px 7px; >#users tr.alt td

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Make sure you add this javascript after the HTML code not before it., I have written 2 functions one to hide the table columns and other to show the columns.

I have commented console.log statement, if you want to do some troubleshooting enable them and run it on Chrom/Mozilla where Firebug addon is installed.

NOTE:- If you run the code with console.log statement enabled in Internet Explorer then you might see some error as this function is not defined in IE.

Please find the complete code below

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 #users < font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; >#users td, #users th < font-size: 1em; border: 1px solid #000; padding: 3px 7px 2px 7px; >#users tr.alt td  
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Hide and show columns in an HTML table

Codepen Link I’ve tried to Google, but there’s no library that has an API to toggle table columns when clicked elsewhere on the page, so I’ve decided to do this:

function deleteColumnOnClick() < $('.hide div').click(function() < var index = $(this).index(); $('table thead th').eq(index).toggleClass('hidden'); var hidden = $('table thead th.hidden') $.each(hidden, function() < var idx = $(this).index(); $.each($('table tbody tr'), function() < $(this).find('td').eq(idx).hide(); >); >); var visible = $('table thead th:not(.hidden)'); $.each(visible, function() < var idx = $(this).index(); $.each($('table tbody tr'), function() < $(this).find('td').eq(idx).show(); >); >); >); > deleteColumnOnClick(); 

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Right now, the relationship between the hide/show «buttons» and the columns is pretty fragile. You’re dependent on the buttons being in the same exact order as the columns. If you add or remove a button, the indices stop making sense; you can’t rely on the 3rd button always being linked to the 3rd column and vice versa.

I’d suggest giving the buttons (or whatever element you use to hide/show columns) a data-column attribute or something similar to make it explicit that this button controls that column. Similarly, the th cells can carry a data-column attribute or simply an ID to identify them.

Hide/show   A column Another column Yet another column   . 

Now it’s explicit that the button will hide column #column-abc . And it’ll simplify the code too, since relationships between things are no longer just assumed or implied.

Secondly, you’re (in a sense) trying to both hide and show the column, and just seeing what works. It’d be simpler to just do a hasClass(«hidden») check. There are also some jQuery selector magic you can use.

Something like this, for instance:

// global click handler for any element with a "data-column" attribute $("[data-column]").on("click", function () < var button = $(this), // the element that was clicked header = $(button.data("column")), // the cell referenced by the button table = header.closest("table"), // the table in which the cell resides index = header.index() + 1, // convert to CSS's 1-based indexing selector = "tbody tr td:nth-child(" + index + ")", // selector for all body cells in the column column = table.find(selector).add(header); // all cells in the column // toggle the "hidden" class on all the column cells column.toggleClass("hidden"); >); 

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