Highlight: True manipulates Data

[BenLussier]

When doing something like this:

{#each investorsTable.rows as row: Row}
  					<tr>
						<td><Button class="text-xs" onclick={() => (selectInvestor(row.id, row.registrationName, row.email))}>Select</Button></td>
						<td>{@html row.id}</td>
						<td>{@html row.email}</td>
						<td>{@html row.registrationName}</td>
					</tr>
				{/each}

and tablehandler is set to highlight: true

HTML formatted values are returned instead of original data values.

For example, name<u class="highlight">@gmail</u>.com

A workaround is to use the returned ID of the row and lookup the values. However, this workaround does not work if you are highlighting/searching ID field as it too will return a modified ID value.

[BenLussier]

I understand the design reasons for manipulating the data (keeping two copies is expensive) but I am wondering if there is a good work around or small mods to the library to help with issues like this

[vincjo]

Interesting point. This feature is not great. There is probably a better way to achieve highlighting. (DOM ?). will think about it.

In the meantime, you could use the search scope to exclude "id" as a workaround https://vincjo.fr/datatables/docs/client/search/scope

search = table.createSearch(['email', 'registrationName'])

[BenLussier]

i want to search on "id" also so i have just turned off highlight for now.

Ya DOM might work. ill think about if there is a better way