Tag Archives: Grid

Faster YUI DataTable with 5 Lines of Code

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 27, 2007
Holy Reflows Batman! The typical usage of a DataTable in the Yahoo User Interface JavaScript library involves passing a string into the constructor signifying the ID attribute of the container you want to attach the DataTable to. However, the YUI DataTable loves the DOM and creating nodes individually using DOM methods. Normally that’d be fine, [...]
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Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 29 Seconds or Less!

By Zach Leatherman | Published: August 28, 2007
This is an updated version of the Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less! modified for the newly released YUI 2.3.0. This method adds an extra row to the YUI DataTable when a row is selected, below the selected row. This allows the developer to add additional content that might not be applicable [...]
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Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less!

By Zach Leatherman | Published: June 7, 2007
Please note that this post has been updated to the new version of YUI, 2.3.0 in an article called “Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 29 Seconds or Less!” Do you want to fit more content onto your DataTable, but don’t know how? Do you wish that you had fewer columns, or more horizontal screen-estate? Well [...]
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YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 30, 2007
The DataTable/Grid Component, the ball and chain of GUI components. It doesn’t let you go out and instantiate beers to create a inebriated subclass of yourself with your friends on Friday night. It makes you do household garbage collection during the last minute of your favorite sporting event. And you’d think it would die before [...]
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Problems with YUI DataTable

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 4, 2007
If you have read anything I’ve written before or know me at all, you know that my go-to JavaScript library is the one and only YUI. So obviously, when I was looking around for a Grid (or as YUI jargon goes, a DataTable), naturally I’m going to turn to YUI compatible components. First, I looked [...]
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