Question

Is there a way to hide and show a column in jQuery flexigrid like this?

$('#FlexigridID').hideCol('ColumnName');
$('#FlexigridID').showCol('ColumnName');

Answer 1

New code tested:

$(function () {


    var visible = true;
    $('#yo').click(function () {
        alert('hello');

        visible = !visible;
        showColumn('#yourFlexigridNameHere', 'Lastname', visible);
    });

});


// you can put this in a separate javascript library
function showColumn(tbl, columnName, visible) {

    var grd = $(tbl).closest('.flexigrid');
    var colHeader = $('th[abbr=' + columnName + ']', grd);
    var colIndex = $(colHeader).attr('axis').replace(/col/, "");


    // queryVisible = $(colHeader).is(':visible');
    // alert(queryVisible);

    $(colHeader).toggle(visible);

    $('tbody tr', grd).each(
        function () {
            $('td:eq(' + colIndex + ')', this).toggle(visible);
        }
    );

}

HTML:

<input id='yo' type="button" />

---

You can also set the hide to false on flexigrid’s colModel setup:

colModel: [
    {display: 'Row ID', name : 'Lastname', width : 100, 
     sortable : true, align: 'left', hide: false}

---

You can also add a method against flexigrid, you can put this in a separate javascript library:

(function ($) {

    $.fn.showColumn = function (columnName, visible) {        

        if (visible == undefined) visible = true;

        var grd = this.closest('.flexigrid');        
        var colHeader = $('th[abbr=' + columnName + ']', grd);
        var colIndex = $(colHeader).attr('axis').replace(/col/, "");

        $(colHeader).toggle(visible);

        $('tbody tr', grd).each(
            function () {                
                $('td:eq(' + colIndex + ')', this).toggle(visible);
            }
        ); 
    };

    $.fn.hideColumn = function (columnName) {
        this.showColumn(columnName, false);
    }

})(jQuery);

You can now invoke hiding and showing using these:

$('#FlexigridID').hideColumn('ColumnName');
$('#FlexigridID').showColumn('ColumnName');


visible = !visible; // for toggling need
$('#FlexigridID').showColumn('ColumnName', visible);