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Classic ways of using simple html tables are long gone – of course you can still use them, but you will never get such functionality and flexibility with HTML as you can get using special jQuery plugins to do the job.
Never tables have been so dynamic and users now can specify and filter all the sections they want, you just need to find right plugin for specific project and that’s why I collected here 30 various functional jQuery plugins.
DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, which will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table. Key features:
This jquery plugin is used to create a pagination element under a table element. You can customize your pagination needs through various settings.
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The PicNet Table Filter is used in production in several PicNet projects so it has been tested production ready. The table filter was born out of our Visual Analytics (Mouse Eye Tracking) project and has received great feedback.
It gives you a great way to filter through table your specified keywords, and it is not using search button! You don’t have to wait while page reloads!
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LiveFilter is a very lightweight jQuery plugin that will filter either an ordered or unordered list and display only the results that match the supplied string. It is throughly documented and designed in a way in which it is very easy to understand for designers.
Simple table sorter.
Tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell. It has many useful features including:
TinySort will sort any nodetype by it’s text- or attribute value, or by that of one of it’s children.
TableDnD plugin allows the user to reorder rows within a table, for example if they represent an ordered list (tasks by priority for example). Individual rows can be marked as non-draggable and/or non-droppable (so other rows can’t be dropped onto them). Rows can have as many cells as necessary and the cells can contain form elements.
HeatColor is a plugin that allows you to assign colors to elements, based on a value derived from that element. The derived value is compared to a range of values, either determined automatically or passed in, and the element is assigned a “heat” color based on its derived value’s position within the range.
You bind a collection of elements such as table rows, divs or list members to heatcolor and let it do the work.
It can find the min and max values of the desired elements, or you can pass them in manually.
It makes image as graphical data using data from table. It requires to use flot.
Visualize plugin — adding ARIA attributes to clarify the chart’s role to screen reader users, so they’re better informed about which elements contain useful data; and providing two style variations to demonstrate how you can use CSS to customize the charts’ appearance.
JQTreeTable allow you to take a plain html table, wrap the rows you want collapsing/expanding in a tbody with an id of treetable, map each row to it’s parent row, set some options, and let jQTreeTable take it from there.
This is very similar to JQTreeTable.
Ingrid is an unobtrusive jQuery component that adds datagrid behaviors (column resizing, paging, sorting, row and column styling, and more) to your tables. It’s easy to get started.
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A jQuery-plugin to toggle the visibility of table columns (collapsing and expanding them) and to save the state until the next visit. It’s supporting tables with colspans and rowspans, too!
A jQuery-plugin that highlights whole columns in a table when hovering over them. It’s supporting tables with colspans and rowspans, too!
Colorize is a jQuery plugin to add background color to alternate HTML table rows, highlight a row/column on mouse over, and colorize a row/column when you click your mouse button over it. You can colorize as many table rows or columns as you want. A repeat mouse click reverts the row/column to the original background color.
KeyTable is a Javascript library which provides keyboard navigation and event binding for any HTML table. With KeyTable Excel style table navigation can be employed to provide features such as editing of a table without requiring a mouse. As a further bonus, KeyTable integrates seamlessly with DataTables.
Grider is a plugin for jQuery that makes your life easier when you need to edit or create a table that handles a list of items. It helps you to do calculations in a very simple way, it supports the following features
jExpand is ultra lightweight jQuery plugin that will make your tables expandable. Typical for line of business applications, this feature can help you organize tables better. This way, tables can hold more information such as images, lists, diagrams and other elements.
TableEditor provides flexible in place editing of HTML tables. User defined handler functions can easily be dropped in to, for example, update the data source via an AJAX request.
This jQuery plugin allow you to add on-the-flight cell editing functionality in your table. You may configure it to perform AJAX queries and returning changed content or error messages. It was designed to work with Google App Engine, and it is strongly advice you develop your ajax server routines in this plataform.
Zentable is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It allows to show and manipulate tabulated data on a web page but with functionalities typically expected from native applications, as scrolling with the mouse wheel, resizing column widths or using keys to move through the data. It can be used with or without AJAX, but is using AJAX where this plug-in really shines.
Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content. Similar in concept with the Ext Grid only its pure jQuery love, which makes it light weight and follows the jQuery mantra of running with the least amount of configuration.
Features:
The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of including a weekly calendar in your application. It is built on top of jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by other online weekly calendars such as google calendar.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 13:08
Thanks for add the reference. I like this one.
Friday, July 29th, 2011 06:10
awesome article, very helpful to build my web apps :)
thanks man!!
Friday, April 15th, 2011 12:39
Very good list. But I am looking for another solution. Anyway: I will for sure need it in the future.
Friday, November 12th, 2010 10:55
Is there any way to sort table from a pop up which says ‘sort in ascending/descending’? Please help.
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 17:44
dhtmlxGrid is a good option if you need datagrid with rich features. Although it’s not a jQuery plugin, it doesn’t conflict with the library.
Monday, June 28th, 2010 19:41
If you’re willing to break away from jQuery, EXTJS has some really nice grids ( http://www.sencha.com/deploy/dev/examples/#sample-3 )
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 04:53
Who would have thought that tables could become interesting again? That being said, HeatColor looks interesting.
Monday, June 7th, 2010 15:33
Great round up of enhanced jQuery table plugs.
Monday, June 7th, 2010 16:25
this is very useful to me and other web developer, thnk a lot :)
Monday, June 7th, 2010 13:20
There is some way to import to one of this tables excell (.xls) file(table) ?
Sunday, June 6th, 2010 12:16
Awesomely helpful list. Thanks.
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Toma
Sunday, June 6th, 2010 12:16
Awesomely helpful list. Thanks.
Binary Haiku
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 04:53
Who would have thought that tables could become interesting again? That being said, HeatColor looks interesting.
Jordan Walker
Monday, June 7th, 2010 15:33
Great round up of enhanced jQuery table plugs.
chestaz
Monday, June 7th, 2010 16:25
this is very useful to me and other web developer, thnk a lot :)
Ziya
Monday, June 7th, 2010 13:20
There is some way to import to one of this tables excell (.xls) file(table) ?
Priya
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 02:11
Thats a huge list, amazing. Thanks a lot.
Tyson Cadenhead
Monday, June 28th, 2010 19:41
If you’re willing to break away from jQuery, EXTJS has some really nice grids ( http://www.sencha.com/deploy/dev/examples/#sample-3 )
Dan
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 13:08
Thanks for add the reference. I like this one.
Martin
Friday, July 29th, 2011 06:10
awesome article, very helpful to build my web apps :)
thanks man!!
Atom
Friday, April 15th, 2011 12:39
Very good list. But I am looking for another solution. Anyway: I will for sure need it in the future.
Ivan
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 17:44
dhtmlxGrid is a good option if you need datagrid with rich features. Although it’s not a jQuery plugin, it doesn’t conflict with the library.
Crandude
Friday, November 12th, 2010 10:55
Is there any way to sort table from a pop up which says ‘sort in ascending/descending’? Please help.