jQuery DataTable Inline Editing

Question

I have been trying to implement simple Inline editing in jQuery Datatable. But I cannot activate the edit that happens on click on a row cell. I used the same code as in their site Link:

<table id="Datatable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="display">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Name</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
</table>

Datatable Binding:

    /* Init DataTables */
    var oTable = $('#Datatable').dataTable({
        "bProcessing": true,
        "sAjaxSource":"http://localhost:6220/DataSources/WCF/Data.svc/GetCustomer",
        "aoColumns": [
                            { "mDataProp": "Age" },
                            { "mDataProp": "Name" }
                     ]
    });

/* Apply the jEditable handlers to the table */              oTable.$('td').editable('http://localhost:6220/DataSources/WCF/Data.svc/SaveCustomer', {
                    tooltip: 'Click to edit...',
                    "callback": function (sValue, y) {
                        var aPos = oTable.fnGetPosition(this);
                        oTable.fnUpdate(sValue, aPos[0], aPos[1]);
                    },
                    "submitdata": function (value, settings) {
                        return {
                            "row_id": this.parentNode.getAttribute('id'),
                            "column": oTable.fnGetPosition(this)[2]
                        };
                    },
                "height": "14px",
                "width": "100%"
            });

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Presumptive

Answer 1

I built a plugin that'll do this for you in about two lines of code. It's small and pretty basic but gets the job done. The repo is here: DataTables CellEdit Plugin

The basic initialization is quick and easy:

oTable.MakeCellsEditable({
    "onUpdate": myCallbackFunction
});

myCallbackFunction = function (updatedCell, updatedRow) {
    console.log("The new value for the cell is: " + updatedCell.data());
}

Update: This has slowly been growing over the past few months and has quite a few more features than when I first posted this answer. Thanks to all the contributors out there pitching in!

Falkner

your plugin is good, but it's not abstract enough, there's too little that can be configured. – Kristakristal

Thank you, I'm always happy to take feature requests on the github page (or better yet pull request! :-) ) – Falkner

Looks great but I need the ability to add new records as well – Mcgovern

Love the plugin - but yes, definitely would love to see add new row/delete row options in the settings as well – Kosse