I have a table. I want the user to be able to be able to filter the table by the option they pick in a given drop down. I have it working, but it's messy and hard to add new rows with (can't get it working in jsfiddle, sorry http://jsfiddle.net/anschwem/Y4cf6/2/). Any simplified code would be greatly appreciated. Also, it would be nice if this code could be restricted to only filtering a certain table, so I can have many tables and many drop downs. If this could be done without row ids, even better. Thanks! My table/html:
<table>
<tr id="catRow">
<td id="cats">cats</td>
</tr>
<tr id="catRow2">
<td id="cats">cats</td>
</tr>
<tr id="dogRow">
<td id="dogs">dogs</td>
</tr>
<tr id="birdRow">
<td id="birds">birds</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="dogRow2">dogs</td>
</tr>
</table>
<select id="selectFilter">
<option id="sel_All">Select...</option>
<option id="selCats">Cats</option>
<option id="selDogs">Dogs</option>
<option id="selBirds">Birds</option>
</select>
Code:
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(window).load(function(){
$('select').change(function() {
if($('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "sel_All" || $('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "sel_All"){$('#catRow').show();$('#catRow2').show();$('#dogRow').show();$('#dogRow2').show();$('#birdRow').show();}
if($('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "selCats" || $('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "selCats"){$('#catRow').show();$('#catRow2').show();$('#dogRow').hide();$('#dogRow2').hide();$('#birdRow').hide();}
if($('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "selDogs" || $('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "selDogs"){$('#catRow').hide();$('#catRow2').hide();$('#dogRow').show();$('#dogRow2').show();$('#birdRow').hide();}
if($('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "selBirds" || $('#selectFilter option:selected').attr('id') == "selBirds"){$('#catRow').hide();$('#catRow2').hide();$('#dogRow').hide();$('#dogRow2').hide();$('#birdRow').show();}
</script>
Please find the refactored code "http://jsfiddle.net/5fZv7/3/" here and the code snippet is as below..
html code:
<select id="selectFilter">
<option id="all">Select...</option>
<option id="cats">Cats</option>
<option id="dogs">Dogs</option>
<option id="birds">Birds</option>
</select>
<table border="1">
<tr class="all cats">
<td>cats</td>
</tr>
<tr class="all cats">
<td>cats 2</td>
</tr>
<tr class="all dogs">
<td>dogs</td>
</tr>
<tr class="all birds">
<td>birds</td>
</tr>
and the javascript code:
$(document).load(function () {
$('#selectFilter').change(function () {
$(".all").hide();
$("." + $(this).find(":selected").attr("id")).show();
});
});
Hopes this helps you to maintain the code easily and efficiently.
I've refactored your fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Y4cf6/4/
By taking advantage of CSS classes and built-in attributes like "value", we can easily make this code more generic.
For this HTML:
<table id="animals">
<tr class="cat">
<td>Cat 1</td>
</tr>
<tr class="cat">
<td>Cat 2</td>
</tr>
<tr class="dog">
<td>Dog 1</td>
</tr>
<tr class="cat">
<td>Cat 3</td>
</tr>
<tr class="bird">
<td>Bird 1</td>
</tr>
<tr class="cat">
<td>Cat 4</td>
</tr>
<tr class="dog">
<td>Dog 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
<select id="selectFilter">
<option>Select...</option>
<option value="cat">Cats</option>
<option value="dog">Dogs</option>
<option value="bird">Birds</option>
</select>
The Javascript is reduced to essentially a one-liner:
$("#selectFilter").on("change", function() {
$("#animals").find("tr").hide().filter("." + $(this).val()).show();
});
Edit: the one case this doesn't handle is giving you a way to show all the rows again. I'll leave this as an exercise for you, but here's a tip: You could read the value of $(this).val()
, and if there isn't a value, then show all the rows instead of filtering them.
You can change your html markup like this
<table id='animal'>
<tr class="cat">
<td>cats</td>
</tr>
<tr class="cat">
<td>cats</td>
</tr>
<tr class="dog">
<td>dogs</td>
</tr>
<tr class="bird">
<td>birds</td>
</tr>
<tr class='dog'>
<td>dogs</td>
</tr>
</table>
<select id="selectFilter">
<option value=''>Select...</option>
<option value='cat'>Cats</option>
<option value='dog'>Dogs</option>
<option value='bird'>Birds</option>
</select>
Then your jQuery
$('#selectFilter').change(function(){
var trs = $('#animal tr');
if(this.value == ''){ // if first option picked show all
trs.show();
}else{
var $el = $('.'+this.value); // element to show
trs.not($el).hide(); // hide all but the elements to show
$el.show(); // show elements
}
});
FIDDLE
You should check out DataTables, it has this kind of filtering built in (fnFilter in the API)
It might be a bit of a learning curve at first, but will be much more flexible in the end.