jQWidgets jqxDataTable showHeader Property

Last Updated : 26 Sep, 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 showHeader property is used to set or get the visibility of the specified jqxDataTable columns.

Syntax:

For setting the showHeader property:

$('#dataTable').jqxDataTable({showHeader: false});

For getting the showHeader property:

var showHeader = $('#dataTable').jqxDataTable('showHeader');

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>

Example: The below example illustrates the jQWidgets showHeader property. In the below example, the value for the showHeader property has been set to false.

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> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green;"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
        <h3> 
            jQWidgets jqxDataTable showHeader Property 
        </h3> 
        <div id="#Data_Table"></div> 
        <input type="button" style="margin: 29px;" 
               id="jqxbutton_for_showHeader"
               value="Invoke the showHeader Property"/> 
        <div id="log"></div> 
        <script type="text/javascript"> 
            $(document).ready(function () { 
                $("#Data_Table").jqxDataTable({ 
                    showHeader: false, 
                    columns: [{ 
                        text: 'Employee_Name', 
                        dataField: 'Employee_Name', 
                        width: 190 
                    }, { 
                        text: 'Company', 
                        dataField: 'Company', 
                        width: 160 
                    }, { 
                        text: 'Designation', 
                        dataField: 'Designation', 
                        width: 190 
                    }] 
                }); 
                $("#jqxbutton_for_showHeader"). 
                    jqxButton({ 
                        width: 250 
                    }); 
                $('#jqxbutton_for_showHeader'). 
                    click(function () { 
                        var Header = 
                            $('#Data_Table'). 
                                jqxDataTable( 
                                    'showHeader'); 
                        $("#log").html(JSON.stringify( 
                            Header)) 
                    }); 
            }); 
        </script> 
        <table id="Data_Table" border="1"> 
            <thead> 
                <tr> 
                    <th>Employee_Name</th> 
                    <th>Company</th> 
                    <th>Designation</th> 
                </tr> 
            </thead> 
            <tbody> 
                <tr> 
                    <td>Rohit</td> 
                    <td>GeeksforGeeks</td> 
                    <td>HR</td> 
                </tr> 
                <tr> 
                    <td>Rahul</td> 
                    <td>Capgemini</td> 
                    <td>Software Engineer</td> 
                </tr> 
                <tr> 
                    <td>Vivek</td> 
                    <td>CESC</td> 
                    <td>Electrical Engineer</td> 
                </tr> 
                <tr> 
                    <td>Amit</td> 
                    <td>Apple</td> 
                    <td>Manager</td> 
                </tr> 
            </tbody> 
        </table> 
    </center> 
</body> 
  
</html>