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bAutoWidth not working when dataTable.bootstrap.js is included in the webpage

'bAutoWidth : false' , is not working when dataTable.bootstrap.js is included in the webpage. I need dataTable.bootstrap.js in my page for design. How to resolve this?
$('#table').DataTable({
"bAutoWidth": false,
"columnDefs": [{
"targets": [-1],
"orderable": false
}]
});

Using autoWidth: false only makes sense when you're setting your own column width with columns.width option or via HTML/CSS.
Also you're using words with no spaces which affects the width of all columns. Using table-layout: fixed on the table may help.
See this example for code and demonstration.

jqGrid add button in Navigation Toolbar does not work

I am trying to create a grid that allows user to add, edit and delete the record. I have done working for populating grid now I am going to display dialog for add record. But, I don't why it doesn't work. Dialog does not getting displayed.
This is the snapshot of my grid.
and this is my js function
InfoDesk.GridManager.postsGrid = function (gridName, pagerName) {
//Create the grid
$(gridName).jqGrid({
//server url and other ajax stuff
url: '/Admin/Posts',
datatype: 'json',
mtype: 'GET',
height: 'auto',
//Columns
colNames: colNames,
colModel: columns,
//pagination options
toppager: true,
pager: pagerName,
rowNum: 10,
rowList: [10, 20, 30],
//row number columns
rownumbers: true,
rownumWidth: 40,
//default sorting
sortname: 'PostedOn',
sortorder: 'desc',
//display the no. of records message
viewrecords: true,
jsonReader: { repeatitems: false },
afterInsertRow: function (rowid, rowdata, rowelem) {
var tags = rowdata["Tags"];
var tagStr = "";
$.each(tags, function (i, t) {
if (tagStr) tagStr += ", "
tagStr += t.Name;
});
$(gridName).setRowData(rowid, { "Tags": tagStr });
}
});
$(gridName).navGrid(pagerName,
{
cloneToTop: true,
search: false,
add:true
}, editOptions, addOptions, deleteOptions);
};
When I click on add button. Nothing is happening. This is my first project with jqGrid. So, I am completely blank about it.
EDITED:
I have found a fiddle example and modified for navigation bar. It is working fine but, still I could not recognize the issue where i am doing mistake in my code.
fiddle

It seems to me that your main goal to understand how you can correctly use navGrid with top and bottom pagers. So I'll explain exactly how all works.
It's not clear whether you need to add the navigator icons on the top pager or on the both top and bottom pager. It's unclear whether you use the bottom pager at all.
jqGrid have two main option which specify the page: pager and toppager options. To use pager option you need create <div> which have id attribute, place the div on the page somewhere and to use the id selector or the id name as the value of pager option. For example you can place <div id="mypager"></div> and to use pager: "#mypager" as jqGrid option. If you would use the value of pager option in another supported form: pager: "mypager" or pager: $("#mypager") then jqGrid will normalize the option to id selector. If you would use var thePager = $(gridName).jqGrid("getGridParam", "pager"); to get the value of "pager" option directly after the grid is created you will get thePager === "#mypager" independent from the way in which you used input pager parameter.
The option toppager works a little in another way. You should use toppager: true to create the top pager. In the case jqGrid create the corresponding <div> itself. The id of the div will be constructed from the id of the grid and the string _toppager. So in case of having gridName equal to #mygrid you would have the top pager with id="mygrid_toppager". If you would get the value of toppager option after the grid is created
var theTopPager = $(gridName).jqGrid("getGridParam", "pager");
you will get back the id selector of the top pager instead of true: theTopPager will be equal to "#mygrid_toppager" (gridName + "_toppager").
The value of the first parameter of navGrid should be the id selector of the pager on which you want to place the navigator buttons. So it should be $(gridName).navGrid(gridName + "_toppager", ...); to add the buttons on the top pager and $(gridName).navGrid(pagerName, ...); if you want to add buttons on the bottom pager. The usage $("#grid").navGrid('setGridParam', ... like you do in jsfiddle demo is wrong because 'setGridParam' is not the id selector of any pager.
In case if you have two pagers (at the bottom and at the top of the grid) you can use pager selector as the first parameter of navGrid and to use additional option cloneToTop: true. By the way the method navButtonAdd which can be used to add custom button don't have any cloneToTop: true option and you would have to specify the id selector of the pager directly.
So if you need create the grid with one top pager only you can remove unneeded jqGrid option pager: pagerName and to use the following code to create the navigator bar with Add, Edit, Delete and Refresh buttons:
$(gridName).navGrid($(gridName).getGridParam("toppager"), { search: false });
If you would like to create grid on both top and bottom pager then you have to use both options of jqGrid toppager: true and pager: pagerName and can use either
$(gridName).navGrid($(gridName).getGridParam("pager"), { search: false });
$(gridName).navGrid($(gridName).getGridParam("toppager"), { search: false });
or the short form
$(gridName).navGrid($(gridName).getGridParam("pager"),
{ search: false, cloneToTop: true });
By the way I use $(gridName).getGridParam("pager") instead of pagerName as the parameter of navGrid because I'm not sure whether you use id name (like "mypager") or id selector (like "#mypager") as the parameter of InfoDesk.GridManager.postsGrid. The method navGrid accept only the id selector.
If you would need to specify additional parameters of form editing methods used during Add, Edit or Delete operation you should specify additional optional parameters editOptions, addOptions, deleteOptions, searchOptions, viewOptions (see the documentation). You should of cause define the objects editOptions, addOptions, deleteOptions, searchOptions, viewOptions before the usage. The current code which you posted don't contains the definition of the option.
UPDATED: By the way I implemented some new features in the fork of jqGrid which I publish on GitHub here. 1) One can now use pager: true option like toppager: true. 2) one can use navGrid without the pager (like $(gridName).navGrid({search: false});). In the case jqGrid will add the buttons on all pagers which jqGrid have. 3) I added new option navGrid: iconsOverText:true which allows another look of navigator buttons with texts (see the demo). 4) the navigator buttons will be wrapped on the next row of pager automatically if too many icons is added and the grid have not so large width. You can see more demos of the features at the bottom of readme on the page.

jQuery DataTable column resizes automatically when displaying inline edit field

Alright Ill try to be as articulate as I can. I am using dataTables 1.9.4 and I am working with a table that I would like to have be a specific height, in this table I have 5 columns 2 of which are hidden columns, while the other 3 are visible.
That said in one of the 3 columns I two div elements one that is just plain text version of what I want users to be able to edit. Where when they click on that name/title to edit it, that div hides and the other one in the same column shows. The one showing has an input element and a link that says cancel. If cancel is clicked then the reverse happens the now hidden shows and the visible hides.
Everything works as expected so no real problems with any of that. The problem is it appears something to do with one or more of the following being set in the datatables api.
sScrollY, bAutoWidth, and a maybe a few others. cause the columns to resize when i hide/show the divs respectively in any given row, if the overall data in the column is larger than what was originally there hiding. Either way I have found that setting sScrollY is the main culprit if I let the table just be whatever size it wants to be height wise. Then the table won't try to auto correct its width per column every "re-draw"
Or I could remove the input field, though that goes against the spec of whats wanted/needed.
So my overall question is, after trying to set/unset, play with and tweak each setting of the api I use for this table. Is, is there anything.. I can do to keep the height set for the overall table while offering an inline element?
var oTable = $('#the_table').dataTable({
//"sPaginationType": "full_numbers",
"bPaginate": false,
"bFilter": false,
"bAutoWidth": false,
//"sScrollY": "200px",
"bScrollCollapse": true,
"aaSorting": [[1,'desc'],[0,'desc']],
"oLanguage": {
//"sInfo": 'Tasks: _END_',
//"sInfoEmpty": 'No Job/Task(s).',
"sInfo": '',
"sInfoEmpty": '',
"sEmptyTable": ' ',
},
"aoColumns": [
{ "bSortable": true, "bVisible": false, "iDataSort": 0, "aTargets": [ 2 ]},
{ "bSortable": true, "bVisible": false},
{ "bSortable": false, "sWidth":"67%", "sClass":"hide_overflow"},
{ "bSortable": false, "sWidth":"30%"},
{ "bSortable": false, "sWidth":"3%", "sClass":"rgt"}
]
});
return oTable;

Javascript - Datatables grid in jQuery

I am using Datatables grid in one of my application because it has a relatively exhaustive API for event dispatching and customization . But I am facing a problem now , the grid's height depends on the number of records to be displayed . How can I customize it so that it maintains the height even if records are deleted and continue to show empty cells from where the record was deleted ? Thanks .
Is there any better grid plugin than datatables which provides the features supported by datatables and where I would not face such problem .

You can add this into your table initialisation like so:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').dataTable( {
"sScrollY": "200px",
"bPaginate": false,
"bScrollCollapse": false
} );
} );
Where the sScrollY value will define the constant height of the table and bScrollCollapse set false will prevent the table from shrinking to fill empty cells.

You need to modify the CSS in order to achieve that. Other option is jqGrid.
http://www.trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html

jqGrid - How to remove the page selection on the pager but keep the buttons?

I want to remove the paging buttons on the grid, but I want to keep the add, edit, refresh, etc buttons on the bottom left. I don't want the pager there because I will be displaying all records in this particular grid implementation.
I want to keep what is in GREEN but remove what is in RED:
Currently, my solution is to empty out the center of the grid's navigation
$('#pager_center').empty();
But this means that the pager renders to the page, and then gets emptied, I'm wondering if I can just prevent it from even being rendered in the first place.

You can use my following JqGrid option to disable RED zone from JqGrid. It should be the best way to solve this question because you don't need to hack JqGrid rendering via CSS style sheet that be caused of problem if JqGrid change pattern for generating pager or you change pager id.
$('#grid').jqGrid
({
rowList: [], // disable page size dropdown
pgbuttons: false, // disable page control like next, back button
pgtext: null, // disable pager text like 'Page 0 of 10'
viewrecords: false // disable current view record text like 'View 1-10 of 100'
});

You could apply a CSS style to hide it...?
#pager1_center {
visibility: hidden;
}
There are also options like pgbuttons and recordtext that settings in the init might cause that part not to render any HTML.
jQuery("#grid_id").jqGrid({pgbuttons:false, recordtext: ''});

Using this will remove the paging/view records area with buttons and everything.
jQuery("#WebsitesGrid").jqGrid({
...
pginput: false,
pgbuttons: false,
viewrecords: false,
....

Or if you would like to have more space in the footer of your jqGrid, you can simply hide desired part of
navigation.
gridComplete: function()
{
$( '#' + gridId + 'Pager_center' ).hide();
$( '#' + gridId + 'Pager_left' ).hide();
},
where gridId is id of your jqGrid.

$('#grid').jqGrid({pgbuttons:false, recordtext:'', pgtext:'')}

If you're looking for a solution to avoid Pager in jqGrid then just add following code in loadcomplete callback or as a statement after your jqgrid call, with or without #Soul_Master's solution,
$("#divPager").css({ "height": "0px", "border": "0px" });
It worked for me.

even you can set align property of pager details like no of records dropdown, pager text, record text. to acheive this need to change pagerpos and recordpos to right or left or center as we required. Details has to be updated in jquery.jqGrid.min.js or just do search for these keywords in your js files and do the update.