This demo of ColVis shows its ability to add "Restore" and "Show all" buttons to the list of column
visibility options. This is done with the restore and showAll options which
can be enabled individually if needed.
For full information about the ColVis options, please refer to the ColVis options documentation.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Age | Start date | Salary |
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| Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
| Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
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| Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
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| Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
dom: 'C<"clear">lfrtip',
columnDefs: [
{ visible: false, targets: 2 }
],
colVis: {
restore: "Restore",
showAll: "Show all"
}
} );
} );
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:
This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:
The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:
This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.
The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.