tablesorter column show/hide functionality

Question

I am wondering whether tablesorter having column show/hide functionality like FlexiGrid does as the following image:

The users can select the columns that they want to view.

Is there a plugin for that or any workaround?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well think of the table as an array of data. If you go over every tr within the tbody

You can select its columns by index. Its been a while since Ive done something like this but the basis is just like an array the indexing starts at 0 so you can go down the rows in an each statement. I can't think of a good example off the top of my head, but in cases where I needed to do similar, there was no way I found short of doing an each over every row for every column

col3 row1 index = 2 col3 row2 index = 5 col3 row3 index = 8

if that makes sense for ya. I wish I could offer better at the time.

if your iterate down the line and .hide() the ones equal to that formula you should be able to show/hide the ones according to the ticks.