jQWidgets jqxGrid openColumnChooser() Method

Last Updated : 29 Mar, 2023

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 jqxGrid is used to illustrate a jQuery widget that shows data in tabular form. Moreover, it renders full support for connecting with data, as well as paging, grouping, sorting, filtering, and editing.

The openColumnChooser() method is used to open the column chooser of the displayed jqxGrid which gives permission to setup the visibility of the columns. It has no parameters. It returns None.

Syntax:

$('#Selector').jqxGrid('openColumnChooser');

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-1.11.1.min.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/jqxmenu.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqx-all.js”></script>

Example: The below example illustrates the jqxGrid openColumnChooser() method in jQWidgets.

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-1.11.1.min.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/jqxmenu.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
        
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxGrid openColumnChooser() method</h3> 
        <br /> 
        
        <div id="jqxg"></div> 
        
        <div> 
            <input type="button" id="jqxBtn" 
                style="margin-top: 25px" value="Click here" /> 
        </div> 
        
        <div id="log"></div> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var d = new Array(); 
            var subjectNames = 
                ["C++", "Scala", "Java", 
                 "C", "R", "JavaScript"]; 
  
            var pageNumber = 
                ["7", "8", "12", "11", "10", "19"]; 
            for (var j = 0; j < 5; j++) { 
                var r = {}; 
                r["subjectnames"] = 
                    subjectNames[(Math.floor( 
                      Math.random() * subjectNames.length)) 
                  ]; 
  
                r["pagenumber"] = 
                    pageNumber[(Math.floor( 
                      Math.random() * pageNumber.length)) 
                  ]; 
                d[j] = r; 
            } 
            var src = { 
                localdata: d, 
                datatype: "array", 
            }; 
            var data_Adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(src); 
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                source: data_Adapter, 
                columns: [ 
                    { 
                        text: "Subject Name", 
                        datafield: "subjectnames", 
                        width: "100px", 
                    }, 
                    { 
                        text: "Page No.", 
                        datafield: "pagenumber", 
                        width: "140px", 
                    }, 
                ], 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                height: "220px", 
                width: "230px", 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({ 
                width: "100px", 
                height: "30px", 
            }); 
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                $("#jqxg").jqxGrid("openColumnChooser"); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>