Is it possible to perform colspan on Datatables?

Question

I have the following structure in PHP implementing a table:

foreach ($varConsulta as $lin) {
    $var1= $varConsulta[$i]['1'];
    $var2= $varConsulta[$i]['2'];
    $var3= $varConsulta[$i]['3'];
    $varFase= $varConsulta[$i]['FASE'];

    $linhas = "";
    $linhas .= "<td style='padding: 10px;'>" . utf8_encode($var1) . "</td>";
    $linhas .= "<td style='padding: 10px;'>" . utf8_encode($var2) . "</td>";
    $linhas .= "<td style='padding: 10px;'>" . utf8_encode($var3) . "</td>";

    switch ($varFase) {
        case 1:
            $linhas .= "<td colspan='2'>ALUNO NÃO APROVADO</td>";
            break;
        case 2:
            $linhas .= "<td style='padding: 10px;'><select id='".$var1."' name='".$var1."'><option value=''></option><option value='1'>SIM</option><option value='0'>NÃO</option></select></td>";
            $linhas .= "<td style='text-align: center;'><a href='#' onclick='comparecimento(".$var1.")' class='Adicionar' title='Adicionar'>.</a></td>";
            break;
        case 3:
            $linhas .= "<td colspan='2'>AGUARDANDO RESULTADO</td>";
            break;
    }

    echo "<tr>" . $linhas . "</tr>";
    $i++;
}

I would like to know if there is a configuration of dataTable allowing the concatenation of columns in the corpo da tabela, and not in the header

Here’s the default setting I use on dataTable:

if ($("#lst").length){

    $("#lst").dataTable( {
        "bJQueryUI" : true,
        "sPaginationType" : "full_numbers",
        "iDisplayLength": 10
    });
}

Answer 1

unfortunately it is currently not possible to perform colspan in table rows by datatables, below follows an explanation given by a member of the development team:

I’m Sorry to Say that Datatables does not support colspan at the Moment. The Reason for this is that it is very Much a non-trivial problem in how this would Interact with Filtering and Sorting (for example how would you Sort a column which has Elements that span Multiple Columns - which column would that data Belong to? The first one, or all of them? - The same Question hangs over Filtering).

reference: http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/14/datatables-and-colspan

if you need translation then request but I believe that the google translator can handle.

Answer 2

One way to do this would be to add in cells:

<th style="width: 40%;">Nome</th>
<td style="width: 40%;">resultado)</td>