AutoFill example Click focus

The click-to-drag auto fill handle can be attached to the table using a number of different triggers. This is set by the autoFill.focus option:

  • click - Display when a cell is clicked upon
  • focus - Display when a cell gains focus - for integration with KeyTable
  • hover - Display when a cell is hovered over

The default behaviour is hover, unless KeyTable is also initialised on the same table, in which case focus is used.

This example shows the click behaviour. Click a cell to show the auto fill handle. Note that a click outside of the table will cause the handle to be removed.

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Airi Satou Accountant Tokyo 33 2008/11/28 $162,700
Angelica Ramos Chief Executive Officer (CEO) London 47 2009/10/09 $1,200,000
Ashton Cox Junior Technical Author San Francisco 66 2009/01/12 $86,000
Bradley Greer Software Engineer London 41 2012/10/13 $132,000
Brenden Wagner Software Engineer San Francisco 28 2011/06/07 $206,850
Brielle Williamson Integration Specialist New York 61 2012/12/02 $372,000
Bruno Nash Software Engineer London 38 2011/05/03 $163,500
Caesar Vance Pre-Sales Support New York 21 2011/12/12 $106,450
Cara Stevens Sales Assistant New York 46 2011/12/06 $145,600
Cedric Kelly Senior Javascript Developer Edinburgh 22 2012/03/29 $433,060
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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

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$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').DataTable( {
        autoFill: {
            focus: 'click'
        }
    } );
} );

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example: