Check box dynamically added to jQuery data table not showing up

Question

I am trying to add a check box to a single column jQuery data table using

dataTable.fnAddData( ["<input type=\"checkbox\">"]);

I don't get any error messages but nothing shows up.

are you supposed to be escaping the `"` in `\"checkbox\">`? – user3871 Jul 12 '13 at 18:53 — user3871, Jul 12 '13 at 18:53
I tried with the same results. – OtagoHarbour Jul 12 '13 at 18:57 — OtagoHarbour, Jul 12 '13 at 18:57

OtagoHarbour · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-12T20:58:06.687

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I needed to do

dataTable.fnAddData( ["<input type='checkbox' id='checkboxID'/>"]);
jQuery('#checkBoxID').show();

edited Jul 12 '13 at 20:58

answered Jul 12 '13 at 20:51

OtagoHarbour

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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You need to add \ before escape character.

dataTable.fnAddData( ["<input type=\\"checkbox\\">"]);

Check this SO Question.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

Community

answered Jul 12 '13 at 18:55

Praveen

\\" caused "SyntaxError: missing ] after element list" with Firebug. – OtagoHarbour Jul 12 '13 at 19:01
`['']` try this one. – Praveen Jul 12 '13 at 19:06
I tried ['']. No errors but nothing showed up. – OtagoHarbour Jul 12 '13 at 19:15
I saw that. It was one of the first things I tried. I removed the name and ID to make it as simple as possible and also the someOtherDataFromAnOtherColumn since that that would be put in another column would it not? Thanks. – OtagoHarbour Jul 12 '13 at 19:25

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