DataTable get hidden column value on click

Question

I have a datatable that is created with Ajax. However, I do not want all the fields to be displayed and thus I set bVisible to false on the not-so-important field.

Answer 1

On the Datatables v1.10.x I've used this method:

Column definition:

"columnDefs": [
    { "data": "yourColumnId", "targets": 0, "visible": false
]

And then in my function...

var rows = $("#tbl").dataTable().fnGetNodes();

for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {

  id = $("#tbl").dataTable().fnGetData(i).yourColumnId;

}

I prefer this method instead of the:

id = $(rows[i]).find("td:eq(0)").html();