JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.20/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/rowgroup/1.1.1/css/rowGroup.bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.20/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/rowgroup/1.1.1/js/dataTables.rowGroup.min.js"></script>
<table id="example" class="display" style="width:100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2011/04/25</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2009/01/12</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2012/03/29</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>2008/11/28</td>
...
JavaScript
var dt = null
,rowGroups = []
,colNames = ['Name', 'Position', 'Office', 'Age', 'Start date', 'Salary'];
$(document).ready(function() {
dt = $('#example').DataTable({
rowGroup: {
startRender: function (rows, group, level) {
return rowGroupStartRender(rows, group, level);
},
enable: false
}
});
$('th').on('contextmenu', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
groupByColumn(this)
})
});
function groupByColumn(elm) {
var $elm = $(elm),
tableId = $elm.closest('table').attr('id'),
visibleColIdx = $elm.index(),
realColIdx = dt.column.index('fromVisible', visibleColIdx);
rowGroups.push(realColIdx);
dt.rowGroup().dataSrc(rowGroups);
dt.rowGroup().enable().draw()
}
function rowGroupStartRender(rows, group, level) {
return colNames[rowGroups[level]] + ': ' + group;
}