I would like to know if it is possible to create a dynamic HTML table from JSON data. The amount of columns and headers should change according to the keys in the JSON. For example this JSON should create this table:
{
color: "green", code: "#JSH810"
}
,
{
color: "red", code: "#HF59LD"
}
...
And this JSON should create this table:
{
id: "1", type: "bus", make: "VW", color: "white"
}
,
{
id: "2", type: "taxi", make: "BMW", color: "blue"
}
...
This has to be 100% dynamic though, because I want to display hundreds of different JSON objects, so nothing should be hard coded in the HTML page.
If you want to get the key of your object as the head of your table, you should create a custom pipe.
import { PipeTransform, Pipe } from '@angular/core';
@Pipe({name: 'keys'})
export class KeysPipe implements PipeTransform {
transform(value, args:string[]) : any {
let keys = [];
for (let key in value) {
keys.push(key);
}
return keys;
}
}
Update: Or simply return keys using Object.keys().
(demo)
@Pipe({name: 'keys'})
export class KeysPipe implements PipeTransform {
transform(value, args:string[]) : any {
return Object.keys(value);
}
}
Now into your html template:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th *ngFor="let head of items[0] | keys">{{head}}</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr *ngFor="let item of items">
<td *ngFor="let list of item | keys">{{item[list]}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Update: Here is the demo.