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DataTable Control: Cell Selection

These examples demonstrate "cellblock", "cellrange", and "singlecell" selection modes.

Sample Code for this Example

Data:

1YAHOO.example.Data = { 
2    webstats: [ 
3        ["home.html",20,400,44,657], 
4        ["blog.html",24,377,97,567], 
5        ["contact.html",32,548,42,543], 
6        ["about.html",8,465,12,946], 
7        ["pagenotfound.html",0,0,0,0] 
8    ] 
9
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CSS:

1/* custom styles for this example */ 
2.yui-skin-sam .yui-dt-body { cursor:pointer} /* when cells are selectable */ 
3#cellrange, #singlecell { margin-top:2em} 
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Markup:

1<div id="cellblock"></div> 
2<div id="cellrange"></div> 
3<div id="singlecell"></div> 
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JavaScript:

1YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, "load"function() { 
2    YAHOO.example.CellSelection = new function() { 
3        var myColumnDefs = [ 
4            {key:"col1", sortable:true}, 
5            {key:"col2", sortable:true}, 
6            {key:"col3", sortable:true}, 
7            {key:"col4", sortable:true
8        ]; 
9 
10        this.myDataSource = new YAHOO.util.DataSource(YAHOO.example.Data.webstats); 
11        this.myDataSource.responseType = YAHOO.util.DataSource.TYPE_JSARRAY; 
12        this.myDataSource.responseSchema = { 
13            fields: ["col0","col1","col2","col3","col4"
14        }; 
15 
16        this.cellBlockSelectDataTable = new YAHOO.widget.DataTable("cellblock"
17                myColumnDefs, this.myDataSource, { 
18                    caption:"Cell-Block Selection Mode with Support for Modifier Keys"
19                    selectionMode:"cellblock" 
20                }); 
21 
22        // Subscribe to events for cell selection 
23        this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellMouseoverEvent"this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.onEventHighlightCell); 
24        this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellMouseoutEvent"this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.onEventUnhighlightCell); 
25        this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellClickEvent"this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.onEventSelectCell); 
26        this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellSelectEvent"this.cellBlockSelectDataTable.clearTextSelection); 
27 
28        this.cellRangeSelectDataTable = new YAHOO.widget.DataTable("cellrange"
29                myColumnDefs, this.myDataSource, { 
30                    caption:"Example: Cell-Range Selection Mode Support for Modifier Keys"
31                    selectionMode:"cellrange" 
32                }); 
33 
34        // Subscribe to events for cell selection 
35        this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellMouseoverEvent"this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.onEventHighlightCell); 
36        this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellMouseoutEvent"this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.onEventUnhighlightCell); 
37        this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellClickEvent"this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.onEventSelectCell); 
38        this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellSelectEvent"this.cellRangeSelectDataTable.clearTextSelection); 
39 
40        this.singleCellSelectDataTable = new YAHOO.widget.DataTable("singlecell"
41                myColumnDefs, this.myDataSource, { 
42                    caption:"Single-Cell Selection Mode with Modifier Keys Disabled"
43                    selectionMode:"singlecell" 
44                }); 
45 
46        // Subscribe to events for cell selection 
47        this.singleCellSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellMouseoverEvent"this.singleCellSelectDataTable.onEventHighlightCell); 
48        this.singleCellSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellMouseoutEvent"this.singleCellSelectDataTable.onEventUnhighlightCell); 
49        this.singleCellSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellClickEvent"this.singleCellSelectDataTable.onEventSelectCell); 
50        this.singleCellSelectDataTable.subscribe("cellSelectEvent"this.singleCellSelectDataTable.clearTextSelection); 
51    }; 
52}); 
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Configuration for This Example

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