Re: JSF/EGL datatable positioning question

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: tim
>
> The problem I am having is that the datatable displays from the beginning.
> I would like it to display staring from the record they clicked.
>
> I know this can be done in html with anchors.

Tim, how would you do this in HTML?  I gotta admit, I got sidetracked by the
hockey fight and lost track of the specific issue.  This isn't so much as
EGL question as it is a JSF question; you need to somehow identify a row and
then make that row visible, right?

Nathan suggested the scrollIntoView JavaScript method.  It is relatively
easy to implement custom JavaScript; attach a JS method to the onLoad
parameter.  A little trickier is identifying a specific row, but I think you
could do it using a JSF tag.  You can specify an ID on a column using a
value from the row.  Put a unique key in a field in the row, and use that as
the ID for an invisible column.  Then find the cell using that ID, and use
the scrollIntoView method.

Joe