Been googling all this while on how to convert an html table to something pagable and sortable, and I have stumbled across jqGrid jquery plugin. I've learned so far that we have to call tableToGrid()
to convert the table (which we pass as a jquery selector string to the method). I've also tried a host of other things, like for e.g:
tableToGrid('#GridView1');
$('#GridView1').jqGrid({
rowNum: 10,
pager: '#pager',
rowList: [10,20,30]
});
But all these do not provide me with the proper result. Is paging possible when we convert an html table to grid?
You should try with
tableToGrid('#GridView1', {
rowNum: 10,
pager: '#pager',
rowList: [10,20,30]
});
You can also add more jqGrid options as the second parameter of tableToGrid
. You can also get reference to the colModel
of the jqGrid after conversion with respect of
var cm = myGrid.getGridParam("colModel");
and then modify some parameters of the column model.
UPDATED: for example with the following code you can set some column data as edittype: "select"
.
for (var i = 0, l=cm.length; i < l; i += 1) {
var colModelColumn = cm[i];
// search for the clolumn with the name colModelColumnName.
// variables colModelColumnName and selectedOptions are defined
// in another code fragment above this one
if (colModelColumn.name === colModelColumnName) {
jQuery.extend(colModelColumn, { edittype: "select",
editoptions: { value: selectedOptions }});
break;
}
}