Table Pagination

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

I don’t think it really matters from an SEO perspective, because the table content is still part of the HTML page, so that bots will see it.

To get 1…10 in the pagination instead of Previous/Next, please add this to the “Custom Commands” text field on the table’s “Edit” screen:

"pagingType": "numbers"

For other possible values, please see https://datatables.net/reference/option/pagingType

Regards,
Tobias

I think my theme may be at play here. whenever I click on the pagination button (number) or when previous next was there. It’s changing the page but also scrolling down that page. not sure why.

I think you will understand if you navigate the page and click the page button.

https://bit.ly/2KouYmT

Hi,

yes, I see what you mean. But actually, no scrolling is taking place. The reason for this is that the height of the table changes when switching the pages, because the rows have different height.
To work around this, you could move the pagination controls (the clickable numbers) to the top of the table, so that this effect would not noticable.
You can do that by extending the “Custom Command” to

"pagingType": "numbers", "dom": "lfprti"

(This follows the documentation at https://datatables.net/reference/option/dom .)

Regards,
Tobias

ok that worked, but moving it on top, caused the A-Z filter to disappear. Its down to space available i assume.

may be a stupid thing to ask, but can i fix the width of the cell to the cell with max width so this behaviour is resolved ?

Hi,

ah, I forgot about the Alphabet search. To keep that, please try

"pagingType": "numbers", "dom": "Alfprti"

Fixing the width will not help here. The problem is the cell height. But making that equal for all cells will look ugly.

Regards,
Tobias

makes sense ?? no worries. I can live with it :). Thanks a ton ?? as always :).

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!

Best wishes,
Tobias