jQuery DataTables – Row selection with Information Displayed

by lizthompson07

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.12.1/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.4.0/css/select.dataTables.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/2.2.3/css/buttons.dataTables.min.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.12.1/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.4.0/js/dataTables.select.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/2.2.3/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js"></script>
<div id="events">
        
    </div>
    <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>
                <th>Image</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>
                <td>
                <img src="https://www.svgrepo.com/show/429785/human-occupation-4.svg" alt="Picture Title">
                </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>
                <td>
                <img src="https://www.svgrepo.com/show/429786/construction-man.svg" alt="Picture Title">
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>66</td>
 ...

CSS

#events {
        margin-bottom: 1em;
        padding: 1em;
        background-color: #f6f6f6;
        border: 1px solid #999;
        border-radius: 3px;
        height: 100px;
        overflow: auto;
    }

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    var events = $('#events');
    var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
      	columnDefs: [
            {
                target: 6,
                visible: false,
            },
        ],
        dom: 'Bfrtip',
        select: true,
        buttons: [
        {
                        text: 'Select all',
                        action: function () {
                            table.rows().select();
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        text: 'Select All On Page',
                        action: function() {
                          table.rows({
                            page: 'current'
                          	}).select();
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        text: 'Clear select',
                        action: function () {
                            table.rows().deselect();
                            events.empty();
                        }
                    },
            {
                text: 'Get selected data',
                action: function () {
                    var images = table.rows( {selected: true }).data();
                    events.empty();
 										for (let i = 0; i < images.length; i++) {
                    	events.prepend(images[i][6]);
                    }
                    
                }
            }
        ]
    } );
    
      $("#example").on('click','tbody tr',function() {
               
        var events = $('#events');


        /* var test = table.rows($(this)).data() */;
        var test = table.rows({ selected: true }).data();

        for (let i = 0; i <test.length; i++) {
          events.append(test[i][6]);
	}
            });
    
    
} );