How to create a bootstrap-table dynamically?

Question

I'm having trouble developing a bootstrap-table by clicking a button. My goal is to add a sort feature for each columns on a table. So for my user case, when a user clicks on the button, it calls an ajax to grab a data from Database and sends back a result (it works so no worries on it). So i need to display the results as a bootstrap-table so i can use the sort feature for each column. Plus, I'm using pagination.js which uses Array of json objects and table to display the result. When I develop the table and append it into a div, I dont see the sort feature on each columns.

It works when I create a simple hard code HTML table with Bootstrap-table attributes such as sort feature (data-sortable="true"). I believe when the page loads bootstrap detects the and its attributs that is on the html body. But when I dynamically create a bootstrap-table, the HTML table is there but not the bootstrap-table feature.

Please help. Here is my code below of how i develop the table using javascript function.

// result is a large string of result when ajax is sending a response. 
function displayResult(result) {
    //convert the result into Array of JSON
    var splitResult = result.split("*split*");
    var getLast = splitResult.length - 1;
    for(var i = 0; i < splitResult.length; i++){
        if(i != getLast) {
            splitResult[i] = JSON.parse(splitResult[i]);
        } else {
            splitResult.splice(i,1);
        }
    }

       // the .pagination is a function that is use in pagination.js 
       // the #page is a DIV
    $('#page').pagination({
        dataSource: splitResult,
        pageSize: 8,
        callback: function(data, pagination) {
            // template method
             var html = template(data);
                // grab the html String and append it into the #demo DIV
            $("#demo").append(html); 
        }
    })
}


function template(data) {
    // table tag with bootstrap-table attributes
    var html = '<table data-toggle="table"  style="width: 100%;">';

    // create the table headers
    html = html + '<thead><tr><th data-field="IDCODE" data-sortable="true">ID</th><th scope="col" data-sortable="true">ZIP 11</th><th scope="col" data-sortable="true">Date</th></tr></thead>'
        + '<tbody>';

    // input the results of the data
    if (data[0].IDCODE) {
      $.each(data, function(index, item) {
        html += '<trid="tr-id-2" class="tr-class-2"><td>'
                + item.IDCODE+'</td>' 
                + '<td>' + item.ZIP11_ID + '</td>'
                + '<td>' + item.DEL01_TS + '</td></tr>';
      });
    } else {
      $.each(data, function(index, item) {
        html += '<tr><td>'+ item +'</td></tr>';
      });
    }

    html += '</tbody></table>';

    return html;
  }

when using this approach, it just display the html table. Not using bootstrap-table. I'm trying to add a feature where a user can click on the column header to sort.

Diego Quirós Diego Quirós · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-12T03:24:49

Hope this code could help you, what it does is 1. display a textBox, where I user can enter a db table name 2. The backend ( in my case Python) get information from db_name_table 3. The data is displayed dinamically in the bootstrap-table

HTML

 <form method="GET" id="id1" action="{% url 'request_page' %}">
        <input type="text" value="db_name_table" name="mytextbox" id='mytextbox' size="1"/>
        <input type="submit" class="btn" value="Click" name="mybtn">
    </form>

Javascript:

$(document).ready( function(){
        $('#id1').submit( function(e){ 
        e.preventDefault();
        $.ajax({
                url:  $(this).attr('action'),
                type: $(this).attr('method'),
                data: $(this).serialize(),
                success:function( value ){
                $('#datatable').bootstrapTable({
                    striped: true,
                    pagination: true,
                    showColumns: true,
                    showToggle: true,
                    showExport: true,
                    sortable: true,
                    paginationVAlign: 'both',
                    pageSize: 25,
                    pageList: [10, 25, 50, 100, 'ALL'],
                    columns: {{ columns|safe }},  
                    data: {{ data|safe }}, 
                    });
                }
            })
        })
    });

How to create a bootstrap-table dynamically?

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