Types

The Editor options and API interfaces specify the data types that each option or method expect to operate with, and the data type that they return (for methods). For brevity and clarity in the reference documentation, rather than detailing each data type in the main documentation, the data types are fully defined here.

Library Name Summary
Editor

DataTables.Editor

Editor instance

Editor

DataTables.Editor.Field

Editor field instance

Editor

button-options

Editor button configuration options

Editor

field-options

Field configuration options common to all field types

Editor

form-options

Form display and interaction options

Javascript

array

Javascript Array type

Javascript

boolean

Javascript Boolean type

Javascript

function

Javascript Function

Javascript

integer

Subset of the Javascript Number type using only integers

Javascript

jQuery

jQuery object instance

Javascript

node

DOM element

Javascript

null

Javascript null type

Javascript

number

Javascript Number type

Javascript

object

Javascript Object type

Javascript

string

Javascript String type

Javascript

undefined

Javascript undefined type

Please note that the types defined here are simple summaries of the data types that DataTables and Editor parameters and functions operate with, included for the completeness of this documentation. For a full, detailed and accurate description of Javascript object types, please refer to the excellent Mozilla Developer Network documentation.