so, I am using datatables along with jQuery, and am a bit stumped as to why this is not working. My HTML looks like this:
<table id="surnamePrimaryPartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>Partitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #afeeee;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
I have several tables, each of which follows a similar format, and each of which uses the partitionDisplay class (really just a class that I use so that I can select all the tables later using jQuery).
So, the problem arises when I try to destroy the datatables. Here is what I have:
function DeletePartitionInformation(data) {
jQuery(".partitionDisplay").each(function(){
jQuery(this).dataTable().fnDestroy();
});
jQuery("table tbody").each(function() {
jQuery(this).html("");
})
}
This code seems to work correctly for the first table, but throws an exception and doesn't work on any subsequent tables. The javascript error message I am getting is the following:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'asSorting' of undefined
A quick Google search on this error says that it generally arises from having elements nested in a tag. This does not appear to be the problem, however. I will post the code for the other three tables to demonstrate this:
<table id="surnamePrimarySubpartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>SubPartitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #afeeee;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>SubPartition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
<th>Begin</th>
<th>End</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id="givenNullSurnamePartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>Partitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #98fb98;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id="givenNullSurnameSubpartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>SubPartitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #98fb98;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>SubPartition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
<th>Begin</th>
<th>End</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
One final note: I am actually able to get the behavior I want if I use the below code. Obviously I would prefer not to, however, since I'd really like to loop over the elements rather than hard-code the element id's in.
function DeletePartitionInformation(data) {
jQuery("#surnamePrimarySubpartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("#surnamePrimaryPartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("#givenNullSurnameSubpartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("#givenNullSurnamePartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("table tbody").each(function() {
jQuery(this).html("");
})
}
so, I am using datatables along with jQuery, and am a bit stumped as to why this is not working. My HTML looks like this:
<table id="surnamePrimaryPartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>Partitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #afeeee;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
I have several tables, each of which follows a similar format, and each of which uses the partitionDisplay class (really just a class that I use so that I can select all the tables later using jQuery).
So, the problem arises when I try to destroy the datatables. Here is what I have:
function DeletePartitionInformation(data) {
jQuery(".partitionDisplay").each(function(){
jQuery(this).dataTable().fnDestroy();
});
jQuery("table tbody").each(function() {
jQuery(this).html("");
})
}
This code seems to work correctly for the first table, but throws an exception and doesn't work on any subsequent tables. The javascript error message I am getting is the following:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'asSorting' of undefined
A quick Google search on this error says that it generally arises from having elements nested in a tag. This does not appear to be the problem, however. I will post the code for the other three tables to demonstrate this:
<table id="surnamePrimarySubpartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>SubPartitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #afeeee;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>SubPartition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
<th>Begin</th>
<th>End</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id="givenNullSurnamePartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>Partitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #98fb98;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id="givenNullSurnameSubpartitionTable" border=1 class="display partitionDisplay">
<caption>SubPartitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr style="background-color: #98fb98;">
<th>Partition</th>
<th>SubPartition</th>
<th>CPU %</th>
<th>Search Count</th>
<th>Person Count</th>
<th>Disk Space</th>
<th>Begin</th>
<th>End</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
One final note: I am actually able to get the behavior I want if I use the below code. Obviously I would prefer not to, however, since I'd really like to loop over the elements rather than hard-code the element id's in.
function DeletePartitionInformation(data) {
jQuery("#surnamePrimarySubpartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("#surnamePrimaryPartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("#givenNullSurnameSubpartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("#givenNullSurnamePartitionTable").dataTable().fnDestroy();
jQuery("table tbody").each(function() {
jQuery(this).html("");
})
}
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edited Jan 22, 2013 at 23:12
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Reset to default 14Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'asSorting' of undefined
This seems to suggest it may be trying to destroy dataTable
s that weren't created.
The static fnTables
should give you an Array
of only the <table>
elements with a dataTable
:
var tables = $.fn.dataTable.fnTables(true);
$(tables).each(function () {
$(this).dataTable().fnDestroy();
});