Comments on: 12 Useful jQuery Plugins for Working with Tables

By: WebGyver

WebGyver — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:55:17 +0000

Thank you very much for putting all of this together. Good work. It always looks so easy when you see a list of jQuery extensions that somebody else has put together, but I know from experience that a lot of work goes into this.

Something completely different:

Has anyone seen functional and good-looking examples of two tables, side-by-side, that allow you to transfer data from one table to another?

There are plenty of samples with SELECT boxes, but I’m looking for a table-based solution (and yes, it is for tabular data).

Thanks for any links or suggestions.

By: Alex Peterson

Alex Peterson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:07:51 +0000

Great list of tutorials. Nothing like a snazzy front end peppered with nice touches of JQuery. Bookmarked!

By: inwebdeveloper

inwebdeveloper — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:37:20 +0000

veru useful, thank you.

By: zsiswick

zsiswick — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:21:57 +0000

That also assumes that the plugin audience is purely “skilled developers”. There are a lot of traditional print graphic designers that have moved over to website design who can greatly benefit from simple UI enhancements made possible with jQuery.

Also, from a development perspective, does it really make sense to create the additional markup required for every scrolling table you want to deploy on a large scale website? Utilizing a jQuery plugin to handle the additional markup results in cleaner, more understandable code.

By: Tanshul

Tanshul — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:30:41 +0000

very informative, thank you.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:41:46 +0000

Very nice list. Thanks!

By: trCreative

trCreative — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:20:08 +0000

Great list.

Some news ones on their I’ve not seen/used before.

Flexigrid is superb and Tablesorted is really easy to use, I’d reccommend both!

By: Webstandard-Team

Webstandard-Team — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:00:27 +0000

Interessting collection, but if you need some more sort-solutions don't miss 7 ways to sort tabledata

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:20:46 +0000

woooooow, i just landed a huge webshop project.
Table overflow but i’ll get to use 3/4 of these so thanks

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:59:31 +0000

I developed ‘fixed header tables’ and currently still improving it. Its not as simple as it sounds. The reason why I started this plugin is because at work I deal with a lot of tabular data.

The problem with having 3 separate tables is that you end up having to load the same data 3 times so that your columns remain the same width in each table. With the plugin I avoid doing that so you only have to load the data once in one table.

Another problem is creating a fixed header is simple enough if you have fixed width columns. You can do this with just CSS. My requirements at work had to be a fluid design to maximize screen space and show as much data as possible and not load the data 3 times. With the plugin you have the option of resizing the browser window which will also resize the table and columns.