Often when editing data in tables, you may wish to edit consecutive records. WHile in Editor it is perfectly feasible to save a row, then click to edit another, Editor can be customised to provide a consecutive record editing friendly interface with "previous" and "next" buttons as well as the regular save button. These two addition buttons also save the record that has been worked on, but rather than closing the editing display, they immediately load the next record in the table and present that for editing. This is done by making use of the buttons options of Editor and the TableTools API to select and activate the next row. A little bit of extra CSS styling is also used to visually group the three buttons.
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The Javascript below is what is used on this page for the example shown.
The HTML shown below shows the TABLE that is used in this example.
The code below is that HTML that is used to drive the server-side section of this exampe.
The HTML shown below includes the Javascript and CSS files that are required for the Editor operation on this page. You can use this as a template for your own pages, but if you move the files you might need to update the paths.
Editor submits and retrieves information by Ajax requests. The two blocks below show the data that Editor submits and receives, to and from the server. This is updated live as you interact with Editor so you can see what is submitted.
The following shows the data that has been submitted to the server when a request is made to add, edit or delete data from the table.
// No data yet submitted
The following shows the data that has been returned by the server in response to the data submitted on the left and is then acted upon.
// No data yet received
DataTables can request information to display from the server when the page first loads. The block below shows the response from the server.