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How to show or hide columns dynamically in JavaScript Grid?

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In the button click event, you can show/hide the columns dynamically by using the showColumns/hideColumns methods of the Grid, respectively.

The following is the argument of the show/hide columns method.

 

Name

Description

ColumnName

ColumnName should be the field or the headerText of the column.



Example:

In the following code examples, the CustomerID column is shown or hidden in the Grid.

JS

<script type="text/javascript">
            $("#Grid").ejGrid({
                // The DataSource "window.gridData" is referred from the jsondata.min.js.
                dataSource: window.gridData,
                allowPaging: true,
                pageSettings: { pageCount: 7 },
                columns: [
{ field: "OrderID", headerText: "Order ID", textAlign: ej.TextAlign.Right },
{ field: "CustomerID", headerText: 'Customer ID', textAlign: ej.TextAlign.Left },
{ field: "EmployeeID", headerText: 'Employee ID', textAlign: ej.TextAlign.Right },
{ field: "Freight", headerText: 'Freight', textAlign: ej.TextAlign.Right },
{ field: "OrderDate", headerText: 'Order Date', textAlign: ej.TextAlign.Right, format: "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}" }
                ]
            });
           $("#Hide").ejButton({ text: "Hide", size: "small", click: "showhide" });
           $("#Show").ejButton({ text: "Show", size: "small", click: "showhide" });
 </script>

 

MVC

@(Html.EJ().Grid<OrdersView>("HideColumn")
        .Datasource((IEnumerable<object>)ViewBag.datasource)
        .Columns(col =>
        {  
col.Field("OrderID").HeaderText("OrderID").TextAlign(TextAlign.Right).Add();
col.Field("CustomerID").HeaderText("CustomerID ").TextAlign(TextAlign.Left).Add();  col.Field("EmployeeID").HeaderText("EmployeeID").TextAlign(TextAlign.Right).Add();
col.Field("Freight").HeaderText("Freight").TextAlign(TextAlign.Right).Add();
col.Field("OrderDate").HeaderText("Order Date").TextAlign(TextAlign.Right). Format("{0:MM/dd/yyyy}").Add();
         })
)
@(Html.EJ().Button("Hide")
        .Text("Hide").Size(ButtonSize.Normal)         
        .ClientSideEvents(eve => { eve.Click("showhide"); })
)
@(Html.EJ().Button("btnShow")
         .Text("Show").Size(ButtonSize.Normal) 
        .ClientSideEvents(eve => { eve.Click("showhide"); })
)

 

ASP.NET

<ej:Grid ID="OrdersGrid" runat="server" AllowPaging="True">
         <Columns>
<ej:Column Field="OrderID" HeaderText="Order ID" TextAlign="Right"/>
<ej:Column Field="CustomerID" HeaderText="Customer ID" TextAlign="Left" />
<ej:Column Field="EmployeeID" HeaderText="Employee ID" TextAlign="Right" />
<ej:Column Field="Freight" HeaderText="Freight" TextAlign="Right"/>
<ej:Column Field="OrderDate" HeaderText="Order Date" TextAlign="Right" Format="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}" />
            </Columns>
</ej:Grid>
<ej:Button ID="Hide" runat="server" Text="Hide" ClientSideOnClick="showhide"> </ej:Button>
<ej:Button ID="Show" runat="server" Text="Show" ClientSideOnClick="showhide"> </ej:Button>

 

<script type="text/javascript">         
     function showhide() {
        var gridObj = $("#Grid").data("ejGrid");
            if (this.element[0].id == "Hide") 
                    gridObj.hideColumns("Customer ID"); //Uses field or headerText of column as the parameter.
            else
                     gridObj.showColumns("Customer ID");//Uses field or headerText of column as the parameter.
      }
</script>

 

The following screenshot displays the Hide and Show Customer ID columns:

 Hide and Show Customer ID columns

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to show or hide columns dynamically in JavaScript Grid.

You can refer to our JavaScript Grid feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications.
You can also explore our 
JavaScript Grid example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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