Help DataTable

[Ali Gohar]

Hi All,

How can add the sub headers in DataTable? I want to make something like this

 
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First Heading    | Second Heading  | Third Heading   |
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Head1|Head2|Head3|Head1|Head2|Head3|Head1|Head2|Head3|
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Row1....
Row2....
etc

Here First Heading, Second Heading and Third Heading are the main headers and each of them has 3 sub headers named Header1, Header2 and Header3.

I have tried to use Nested DataTable but i am unable to specify the header f:facet for outer data Table. Does anyone has solution for this?

Thanks
[ October 27, 2006: Message edited by: Ali Gohar ]

[Ron De Leon]

You can try panelGrid, panelGroup and dataTable.

<h:panelGrid>
<h:panelGroup >
<h:dataTable/>
</h:panelGroup>
</h:panelGrid>

[Ali Gohar]

Thanks for the reply, but it is same as using nested DataTables

How can i specify the Header in Panel Group? The problem is displaying Top Headings with Header Facet. I can display them without header Facet but then i can't implement the header style on that because the underlying data tables will also get that style. Is there any solution to that?

[Ali Gohar]

Any idea???

[Ali Gohar]

Ok, i have found the work around for this

I am posting here, may be it can help somebody

<h:dataTable var="row" value="#{MyBean.list}">
  <f:facet name="header">
<f:verbatim escape="false">
  <TR>
    <TD colspan="3" align="center" class="data-table-hdr">Heading 1</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="center" class="data-table-hdr">Heading 2</TD>
     <TD colspan="3" align="center" class="data-table-hdr">Heading 3</TD>
   </TR>
</f:verbatim>
  </f:facet>
   
  <!-- Now Here you can put your columns one by one-->
  <h:column>
    <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value="Sub Heading1"/></f:facet>
    <h:outputText value="#{row.someValue}"/>
  </h:column>
 
  And So on......
 
</h:dataTable>

[vivek dilip yadav]

Dude this was awesome....
Thanks for the code and your help......

[Tim Holloway]

vivek dilip yadav wrote:Dude this was awesome....
Thanks for the code and your help......

Welcome to the JavaRanch, Vivek!

But you do realize that this thread was last posted to about 7 years ago, don't you? Most of the people in it have probably moved on to other technologies by now.