TableFilter/README.md

TableFilter

A Javascript library making HTML tables filterable

TableFilter is a modernised version of the HTML Table Filter generator javascript plugin. This library adds to any html table a "filter by column" feature that enables users to filter and limit the data displayed within a long table. By default, the script automatically adds a filter grid bar at the top of the desired table.

Features

• Convert a regular HTML table into an advanced grid component providing:
  • Advanced columns filtering model
  • Sorting and pagination facilities
  • Complete selection model (ezEditTable extension)
  • Extended keyboard navigation (ezEditTable extension)
  • Inline cell or row editing (ezEditTable extension)
  • Row insertion or deleting (ezEditTable extension)
  • And even more features...
• Attach to an existing HTML table
• Integration with any server-side technology as this is a pure client-side solution
• Exhaustive documentation and poweful API

Getting started

• Clone the repo using Git:

git clone --bare https://github.com/koalyptus/TableFilter.git

• You can download this repository.

• Alternatively, install TableFilter files in your npm enabled project using:

npm install tablefilter --save

• or get the future features from the next release channel:

npm install tablefilter@next --save

• If you don't use npm, you can also access these files on npmcdn, download them or point your package manager to them.

Setup

Copy the tablefilter directory under dist and place it at desired location in your project. Then include the main js file in your page:

<script src="path/to/my/scripts/tablefilter/tablefilter.js"></script>

Place the following snippet just under the HTML table and always define a base_path property in the configuration object to reflect the path to the script

<script>
var tf = new TableFilter(document.querySelector('.my-table'), {
    base_path: 'path/to/my/scripts/tablefilter/'
});
tf.init();
</script>

If the base_path property is not specified, it will default to /tablefilter directory:

your-page.html
 |— tablefilter

Development

This project requires node.js and Grunt to be installed:

• install node.js
• install Grunt from the command line using npm (comes with node.js):

npm install -g grunt-cli

Once Grunt is sorted out you can follow the instructions below. Start by installing any dependencies.

npm install

Use the Grunt dev task to launch a build / watch cycle and start the local sever on port 8080:

grunt dev

Use the build task to generate a production build:

grunt build

The default Grunt task will create a production build, run the tests and finally generate the demos:

grunt

To run all the tests:

grunt test

and to run specific test(s):

grunt test-only:test.html
grunt test-only:test.html,test-sort.html

Demos

Check out the online examples or generate the demos locally:

grunt build-demos

then run the local webserver:

grunt server

then pick a demo from:

http://localhost:8080/demos/

Documentation

Find exhaustive documentation on the configuration options in the WIKI section.

Autogenerated documentation of the ES6 modules is available on the website: docs

If you previously used the HTML Table Filter Generator plugin, verify the configuration options you are using are still supported: Obsolete

Run this task to generate the documentation in the docs/docs directory:

grunt esdoc

Support

• GitHub for reporting bugs and feature requests.

License

MIT