jQWidgets jqxDataTable render() Method

Last Updated : 05 Oct, 2021

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxDataTable is used for reading and displaying the data from the HTML Table. This is also used to display data from various data sources like XML, JSON, Array, CSV, or TSV.

The render() method is used to render the specified jqxDataTable. This method does not accept any parameters.

Syntax:

$("#dataTable").jqxDataTable('render');

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdropdownlist.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdatatable.js”></script>

The below example illustrates the jQWidgets render() method.

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
          "jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" 
          type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="scripts/jquery.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdropdownlist.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdatatable.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var data = new Array(); 
            var Employee_Name = [ 
                "Ravi", "Sumit",  
                "Amit", "Aakash"]; 
            var Company = [ 
                "GeeksforGeeks",  
                "Amazon",  
                "Google", 
                "GeeksforGeeks"]; 
            var Designation = [ 
                "Content Writer",  
                "Software Engineer", 
                "Data Scientist",  
                "HR"]; 
  
            a = 0; 
            while (a < 4) { 
                var row = {}; 
                row["Employee_Name"] = Employee_Name[a]; 
                row["Company"] = Company[a]; 
                row["Designation"] = Designation[a] 
                data[a] = row; 
                a++; 
            } 
  
            var source = { 
                localData: data, 
                dataType: "array", 
                dataFields: [{ 
                    name: 'Employee_Name', 
                    type: 'string' 
                }, { 
                    name: 'Company', 
                    type: 'string' 
                }, { 
                    name: 'Designation', 
                    type: 'string' 
                }] 
            }; 
            var dataAdapter =  
                new $.jqx.dataAdapter(source); 
            $("#table").jqxDataTable({ 
                width: 550, 
                theme: 'energyblue', 
                editable: true, 
                source: dataAdapter, 
                ready: function () { 
                    $("#table").jqxDataTable( 
                      'selectRow', 0); 
                }, 
                columns: [{ 
                    text: 'Employee_Name', 
                    dataField: 'Employee_Name', 
                    width: 200 
                }, { 
                    text: 'Company', 
                    dataField: 'Company', 
                    width: 160 
                }, { 
                    text: 'Designation', 
                    dataField: 'Designation', 
                    width: 190 
                }] 
            }); 
            $("#jqxbutton").jqxButton({ 
                theme: 'energyblue', 
                height: 30 
            }); 
            $('#jqxbutton').click(function () { 
                $("#table").jqxDataTable('render'); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green;">  
          GeeksforGeeks  
        </h1> 
        <h3>  
          jQWidgets jqxDataTable render() Method  
        </h3> 
        <div id="table"></div> 
        <input type="button" style="margin: 20px;" 
               id="jqxbutton" value="Render" /> 
    </center> 
</body> 
  
</html>