jQuery Data Tables

[Steve Dyke]

In my web apps I populate tables using jstl and make most of the cell content iteractive by making the content hyperlink tags.

If I start using the jQuery Data Tables will this still be possible?

[Bear Bibeault]

You'd have to check with the documentation of the plugin you are using.

[Greg Charles]

In the plugin I've used (http://www.datatables.net), it takes an plain HTML table and adds data table features to it, like sortable rows, pagination, etc. If your JSTL produces an HTML table, then it will work with the plugin. Remember that JSTL is interpreted by your server. The browser and jQuery only see the HTML it produces.

[Steve Dyke]

Greg Charles wrote:In the plugin I've used (http://www.datatables.net), it takes an plain HTML table and adds data table features to it, like sortable rows, pagination, etc. If your JSTL produces an HTML table, then it will work with the plugin. Remember that JSTL is interpreted by your server. The browser and jQuery only see the HTML it produces.

Will it take care of page scaling and various display resolutions. This is where I have my biggest problem in web design. I develope on a wide screen with smaller resolution. Then the user has a letter box display with larger sesolution. My web page looks terrible when this happens.

Also I am using IE8. Will this be an issue?

[Greg Charles]

Well, check it out yourself. It's very well-documented as these things go, and there are many working examples included on their site. It can definitely definitely scale horizontally based on the browser window. Example here: http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/basic_init/flexible_width.html . Scaling vertically, if you need to do that, may take some toying around, but I imagine it's possible.

There are always issues with IE, but this plugin seemed to work pretty consistently across different browsers. The project I was working on had to support IE 7(!), IE 8, IE 9, FireFox, and Chrome.