FixedColumns example Index column

A typical interaction to want to perform with a fixed column, is an index column. A method for how this can be achieved with FixedColumns is shown in this example, building on the index column example for DataTables. Also shown in this example is how the fixed column can be styled with CSS to show it more prominently.

The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

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$(document).ready(function() {
    var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
        scrollY:        "300px",
        scrollX:        true,
        scrollCollapse: true,
        paging:         false,
        columnDefs: [ {
            sortable: false,
            "class": "index",
            targets: 0
        } ],
        order: [[ 1, 'asc' ]]
    } );
 
    table.on( 'order.dt search.dt', function () {
        table.column(0, {search:'applied', order:'applied'}).nodes().each( function (cell, i) {
            cell.innerHTML = i+1;
        } );
    } ).draw();
 
    new $.fn.dataTable.FixedColumns( table );
} );

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:

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