jQWidgets jqxTreeGrid showColumn() Method

Last Updated : 30 Sep, 2021

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxTreeGrid is used for representing data in a tree-like structure. This widget is useful for displaying multi-column of hierarchical data, data paging, sorting and filtering, data editing, column resizing, fixed columns, conditional formatting, aggregates, and rows selection. These widgets also read and display the data from any type of data source such as XML, JSON, Array, CSV, or TSV.

The showColumn() method is used to show a hidden column of the specified jqxTreeGrid.

Syntax:

$("Selector").jqxTreeGrid('showColumn', dataField);

Parameters: This method accepts a parameter that is illustrated below.

dataField: This is the specified hidden data field or column name that will be shown.

Return Values: This method does not return any values.

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdropdownlist.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdatatable.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxtreegrid.js”></script>

Example: The below example illustrates the jQWidgets jqxTreeGrid showColumn() method. In the below example, the column name of ‘Company’ is already hidden, the column is shown using this method.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
"jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" type="text/css"/> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="scripts/jquery.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdropdownlist.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdatatable.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxtreegrid.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green;"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
        <h3> 
            jQWidgets jqxTreeGrid showColumn() Method 
        </h3> 
        <div id="jqxTreeGrid" style="margin: 25px;"> 
        </div> 
        <input type="button" style="margin: 20px;" 
               id="button_for_showColumn" 
               value="Show the hidden column"/> 
        <script type="text/javascript"> 
            $(document).ready(function () { 
                var A = [{ 
                    "ID": 1, 
                    "Employee_Name": "Amit", 
                    "Company": "GeeksforGeeks", 
                    "Designation": "Content Writer", 
                    "expanded": true, 
                    A1: [{ 
                        "ID": 2, 
                        "Employee_Name": "Sumit", 
                        "Company": "Amazon", 
                        "Designation": "Software Engineer", 
                    }, { 
                        "ID": 3, 
                        "Employee_Name": "Vivek", 
                        "Company": "Apple", 
                        "Designation": "Product Manager", 
                        "expanded": true, 
                        A1: [{ 
                            "ID": 4, 
                            "Employee_Name": "Soni", 
                            "Company": "Flipkart", 
                            "Designation": "HR", 
                        }] 
                    }] 
                }]; 
  
                var Data_Source = { 
                    dataFields: [{ 
                        name: 'ID' 
                    }, { 
                        name: 'Employee_Name' 
                    }, { 
                        name: 'Company' 
                    }, { 
                        name: 'Designation' 
                    }, { 
                        name: 'A1', 
                        type: 'array' 
                    }, { 
                        name: 'expanded' 
                    }], 
                    hierarchy: { 
                        root: 'A1' 
                    }, 
                    id: 'ID', 
                    localData: A 
                }; 
  
                var Data = new 
                    $.jqx.dataAdapter(Data_Source); 
  
                $("#jqxTreeGrid").jqxTreeGrid({ 
                    source: Data, 
                    sortable: true, 
                    ready: function () { 
                        $("#jqxTreeGrid").jqxTreeGrid( 
                            'expandRow', '1'); 
                    }, 
                    ready: function () { 
                        $("#jqxTreeGrid").jqxTreeGrid( 
                            'expandRow', '3'); 
                    }, 
                    columns: [{ 
                        text: 'Employee_Name', 
                        align: 'center', 
                        dataField: 'Employee_Name', 
                        width: 140 
                    }, { 
                        text: 'Company', 
                        align: 'center', 
                        dataField: 'Company', 
                        width: 130 
                    }, { 
                        text: 'Designation', 
                        align: 'center', 
                        dataField: 'Designation', 
                        width: 150 
                    }] 
  
                }); 
                $("#button_for_showColumn").jqxButton({ 
                    width: 230, 
                    height: 35 
                }); 
                $("#jqxTreeGrid").jqxTreeGrid( 
                    'hideColumn', 'Company'); 
                $('#button_for_showColumn').click( 
                    function () { 
                        $("#jqxTreeGrid").jqxTreeGrid( 
                            'showColumn', 'Company'); 
                    }); 
            }); 
        </script> 
    </center> 
</body> 
  
</html>