resTables - jQuery plugin for responsive tables

The resTables jQuery plugin allows you to easily make your table responsive. It has been created based on the stacktable.js concept by John Polacek.

View demo at http://codefog.github.io/restables/

Installation

You can download the plugin regular way or use the npm to install it:

npm install restables --save 

Usage

The initialization of the plugin is simple:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('table').resTables();
});

Make sure to add the necessary CSS classes to display and hide both tables under certain window sizes:

table.restables-clone {
    display: none;
}

@media (max-width: 991px) {
    table.restables-origin {
        display: none;
    }
    
    table.restables-clone {
        display: table;
    }
}

How it works

When the script is initialized it will create a sibling table but with 2-column layout only. Consider the following table structure:

<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Header 1</th>
            <th>Header 2</th>
            <th>Header 3</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Value A1</td>
            <td>Value A2</td>
            <td>Value A3</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Value B1</td>
            <td>Value B2</td>
            <td>Value B3</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Based on the above the plugin will create a new table with this structure:

<table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Header 1</td>
            <td>Value A1</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Header 2</td>
            <td>Value A2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Header 3</td>
            <td>Value A3</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Header 1</td>
            <td>Value B1</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Header 2</td>
            <td>Value B2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Header 3</td>
            <td>Value B3</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Options

merge

Default value: {}

An object containing columns that will be merged with other columns. In the below example columns with indexes $2 and $3 will be merged with column $1 and column $6 will be merged with column $5.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    merge: {
        1: [2, 3], 
        5: [6]
    }
});

move

Default value: {}

An object containing columns that will be moved. In the below example column with index $1 will be placed at the top of the new table (index $0) and column $6 as the second row with index $1.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    move: {
        1: 0,
        6: 1
    }
});

skip

Default value: []

An array of columns that should be skipped in the cloned table. In the below example columns with indexes $3 and $5 will not be present in the new table.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    skip: [3, 5]
});

span

Default value: []

An array of columns that should be spanned - the colspan="2" attribute will be added. In the below example columns with indexes $2 and $4 will have the colspan="2" attribute added and will appear as one cell.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    span: [2, 4]
});

cssClassOrigin

Default value: restables-origin

The CSS class that will be added to origin table.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    cssClassOrigin: 'my-origin-table'
});

cssClassClone

Default value: restables-clone

The CSS class that will be added to cloned table.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    cssClassClone: 'my-cloned-table'
});

uniqueAttributes

Default value: ['id', 'for']

The list of attributes that should remain unique. Each cloned element containing those attributes will have them updated by adding the suffix (see attributeSuffix below).

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    uniqueAttributes: ['id', 'for', 'data-my-id']
});

attributeSuffix

Default value: '-restables-clone'

The suffix that will be added to the unique attributes in the cloned elements.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    attributeSuffix: '-my-suffix'
});

cloneCallback

Default value: null

The callback that is triggered just before the cloned table is inserted into DOM.

// Example
$('#my-table').resTables({
    cloneCallback: function (clone) {
        clone.find('.checkbox').addClass('checkbox-mobile');
    }
});

preserveCellClasses

Default value: true

If true the CSS classes of cells will be preserved in the cloned table element.