We will make one of the columns values to a href tag. First we will load the grid from the a custom json data and then we will use cellsrenderer function to format the columns values. I hope you will like this.

Please see this article in my blog here.

Background

We all works in grid controls. Sometimes you may need to customize the grid and its column values. Here I am giving you custom demo of the same. In this article we are going to customize the grid column contents to a href tags.

Using the code

To show this demo, I am using jQWidget jQX Grid control. If you are new to jQX Grid, you can find out some introduction here: jQWidget JQX Grid

Now we are going to load the grid first. I hope you have already checked how to load the grid. Please see the below code.

Create an HTML page

  1. <!DOCTYPE html>
  2. <html lang="en">
  4. <head>
  5. <title>Href Columns In Grid - Sibeesh Passion</title>
  6. </head>
  8. <body>
  9. <h3>Href Columns In Grid - Sibeesh Passion</h3>
  10. <br />
  11. <div id="jqxgrid"></div>
  12. </body>
  14. </html>
Add the needed references
  1. <script src="jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
  2. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script>
  3. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"></script>
  4. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"></script>
  5. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"></script>
  6. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js"></script>
  7. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdropdownlist.js"></script>
  8. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"></script>
  9. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"></script>
  10. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.filter.js"></script>
  11. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.sort.js"></script>
  12. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"></script>
  13. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.pager.js"></script>
  14. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.columnsresize.js"></script>
  15. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.columnsreorder.js"></script>
  16. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.export.js"></script>
  17. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdata.export.js"></script>
  18. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdatatable.js"></script>
  19. <link href="JQXItems/jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" rel="stylesheet" />
Here comes the main part.

Grid Settings or Grid Initialization
  1. <script type="text/javascript">
  2. $(document).ready(function()
  3. {
  4. var columntohref = function(row, column, value)
  5. {
  6. if (value.indexOf('#') != -1)
  7. {
  8. value = value.substring(0, value.indexOf('#'));
  9. }
  10. var format =
  11. {
  12. target: '"_blank"'
  13. };
  14. var html = $.jqx.dataFormat.formatlink(value, format);
  15. return html;
  16. }
  17. var data =
  18. {
  19. datatype: "json",
  20. datafields: [
  21. {
  22. "name": "LinkName",
  23. "type": "string"
  24. },
  25. {
  26. "name": "Link",
  27. "type": "string"
  28. }],
  29. url: "CustomData.txt"
  30. };
  31. $("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid(
  32. {
  33. source: data,
  34. columns: [
  35. {
  36. "text": "LinkName",
  37. "dataField": "LinkName",
  38. width: "300"
  39. },
  40. {
  41. "text": "Link",
  42. "dataField": "Link",
  43. cellsrenderer: columntohref,
  44. width: "300"
  45. }]
  46. });
  47. });
  48. </script>
Sample data

Following is the contents of CustomData.txt
  1. [{
  2. "LinkName": "Sibeesh Passion",
  3. "Link": "http://www.sibeeshpassion.com"
  4. },
  5. {
  6. "LinkName": "C-Sharp Corner",
  7. "Link": "http://www.c-sharpcorner.com"
  8. },
  9. {
  10. "LinkName": "Facebook",
  11. "Link": "http://www.fb.com"
  12. },
  13. {
  14. "LinkName": "Google",
  15. "Link": "http://www.google.com"
  16. }]
As you can find out in the above code we are using cellsrenderer property to call the functioncolumntohref which does the formatting. We are formatting the data as below,

$.jqx.dataFormat.formatlink(value, format)

Shall we check our output now?

Output
output
Column values to a href

Complete Code
  1. <!DOCTYPE html>
  2. <html lang="en">
  4. <head>
  5. <title>Href Columns In Grid - Sibeesh Passion</title>
  6. <script src="jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
  7. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script>
  8. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"></script>
  9. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"></script>
  10. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"></script>
  11. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js"></script>
  12. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdropdownlist.js"></script>
  13. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"></script>
  14. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"></script>
  15. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.filter.js"></script>
  16. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.sort.js"></script>
  17. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"></script>
  18. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.pager.js"></script>
  19. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.columnsresize.js"></script>
  20. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.columnsreorder.js"></script>
  21. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxgrid.export.js"></script>
  22. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdata.export.js"></script>
  23. <script type="text/javascript" src="JQXItems/jqwidgets/jqxdatatable.js"></script>
  24. <link href="JQXItems/jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  25. <script type="text/javascript">
  26. $(document).ready(function()
  27. {
  28. var columntohref = function(row, column, value)
  29. {
  30. if (value.indexOf('#') != -1)
  31. {
  32. value = value.substring(0, value.indexOf('#'));
  33. }
  34. var format =
  35. {
  36. target: '"_blank"'
  37. };
  38. var html = $.jqx.dataFormat.formatlink(value, format);
  39. return html;
  40. }
  41. var data =
  42. {
  43. datatype: "json",
  44. datafields: [
  45. {
  46. "name": "LinkName",
  47. "type": "string"
  48. },
  49. {
  50. "name": "Link",
  51. "type": "string"
  52. }],
  53. url: "CustomData.txt"
  54. };
  55. $("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid(
  56. {
  57. source: data,
  58. columns: [
  59. {
  60. "text": "LinkName",
  61. "dataField": "LinkName",
  62. width: "300"
  63. },
  64. {
  65. "text": "Link",
  66. "dataField": "Link",
  67. cellsrenderer: columntohref,
  68. width: "300"
  69. }]
  70. });
  71. });
  72. </script>
  73. </head>
  75. <body class='default'>
  76. <h2>Href Columns In Grid - Sibeesh Passion</h2>
  77. <div id="jqxgrid"></div>
  78. </body>
  80. </html>
Conclusion

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