bootstrap-table/site/docs/extensions/filter-control.md

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Usage

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Example

Filter Control

Options

filterControl

• Attribute: data-filter-control

• type: Boolean

• Detail:

Set to true to add an input or select into the column.

• Default: false

filterControlVisible

• Attribute: data-filter-control-visible

• type: Boolean

• Detail:

Set to false to hide the filter controls.

• Default: true

alignmentSelectControlOptions

• Attribute: data-alignment-select-control-options

• type: String

• Detail:

Set the alignment of the select control options. Use left, right or auto.

• Default: undefined

filterControlContainer

• Attribute: data-filter-control-container

• type: Selector

• Detail:

Set to e.g. #filter to allow custom input filter in an element with the id filter. Each filter element (input or select) must have the following class bootstrap-table-filter-control-<FieldName> ( must be replaced with the defined Field name).

• Default: false

filterDataCollector

• Attribute: data-filter-data-collector

• type: Function

• Detail:

Collect data which will added to the select filter, to filter through e.g. labels that are comma separated and displayed with a formatter.

• Default: undefined

filterControlMultipleSearch

• Attribute: data-filter-control-multiple-search

• type: bool

• Detail:

Set to true to allow searching multiple values at once. The values will be split by a delimiter, see option filterControlMultipleSearchDelimiter.

• Default: false

filterControlMultipleSearchDelimiter

• Attribute: data-filter-control-multiple-search-delimiter

• type: String

• Detail:

Defines the delimiter which will be used to split the search values in the option filterControlMultipleSearchDelimiter.

• Default: ,

searchOnEnterKey

• Attribute: data-search-on-enter-key

• type: Boolean

• Detail:

Set to true to fire the search action when the user presses the enter key.

• Default: false

showFilterControlSwitch

• Attribute: data-show-filter-control-switch

• type: Boolean

• Detail:

Set to true to show the filter control switch button.

• Default: false

sortSelectOptions

• Attribute: data-sort-select-options

• type: Boolean

• Detail:

Set to true to sort the option elements of the select control.

• Default: false

Column options

filterControl

• Attribute: data-filter-control

• type: String

• Detail:

Set input: show an input control, select: show a select control, datepicker: show a html5 datepicker control.

• Default: undefined

filterControlPlaceholder

• attribute: data-filter-control-placeholder

• type: String

• Detail:

Set this to show a placeholder only in the input filter control.

• Default: ''

filterCustomSearch

• Attribute: data-filter-custom-search

• type: function

• Detail:

The custom search function is executed instead of the built-in search function and takes four parameters:

* `text`: the search text.
* `value`: the value of the column to compare.
* `field`: the column field name.
* `data`: the table data.

Return false to filter out the current column/row. Return true to not filter out the current column/row. Return null to skip the custom search for the current value.

• Default: undefined

filterData

• Attribute: data-filter-data

• type: String

• Detail:

Set custom select filter values, use var:variable to load from a variable obj:variable.key to load from an object url:http://www.example.com/data.json to load from a remote JSON file json:{key:data} to load from a JSON string. func:functionName to load from a function.

• Default: undefined

filterDatepickerOptions

• Attribute: data-filter-datepicker-options

• type: Object

• Detail:

If the datepicker option is set use this option to configure the datepicker with the native options. Use this way: data-filter-datepicker-options='{"max":value1, "min": value2, "step": value3}'. For more information visit this documentation

• Default: undefined

filterDefault

• Attribute: data-filter-default

• type: String

• Detail:

Set the default value of the filter.

• Default: undefined

filterOrderBy

• attribute: data-filter-order-by

• type: String

• Detail:

Set this to order the options in a select control whether ascending ('asc'), descending ('desc') or in the order provided by the server ('server').

• Default: 'asc'

filterStartsWithSearch

• attribute: data-filter-starts-with-search

• type: Boolean

• Detail:

Set to true if you want to use the starts with search mode.

• Default: false

filterStrictSearch

• Attribute: data-filter-strict-search

• type: Boolean

• Detail:

Set to true if you want to use the strict search mode.

• Default: false

Icons

• clear: 'glyphicon-trash icon-clear'
• filterControlSwitchHide: 'glyphicon-zoom-out icon-zoom-out'
• filterControlSwitchShow: 'glyphicon-zoom-in icon-zoom-in'

Events

onColumnSearch(column-search.bs.table)

• Fired when we are searching into the column data

onCreatedControls(created-controls.bs.table)

• Fired when we are searching into the column data

Methods

triggerSearch

• Trigger manually the search action

clearFilterControl

• Clear all the controls added by this plugin (similar to showSearchClearButton option).

toggleFilterControl

• Toggles the visibility (show/hide) of the filter controls.

Localizations

formatClearFilters

• type: Function

• Default: function () { return "Clear Filters" }

formatFilterControlSwitch

• type: Function

• Default: function () { return "Hide/Show controls" }

formatFilterControlSwitchHide

• type: Function

• Default: function () { return "Hide controls" }

formatFilterControlSwitchShow

• type: Function

• Default: function () { return "Show controls" }