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Dropdowns in UI Grid

[wp_ad_camp_1] Using dropdowns in UI-Grid is two-fold. One, you define a filter that displays the labels of HTML’s SELECT values when the dropdown is not on focus or edit mode. The following Department labels are displayed using a filter. Second,

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How to adjust table headers in Angular-Datatables

This highlights how to programmatically adjust table headers after rendering angular-datatables. Note that sometimes before adjusting the headers so that they will aligned with the table body (

), a delay (via setTimeout()) is needed as the adjustment may be interrupted or prevented by any of the tables’ parent elements.

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Type Checking in JavaScript

Okay, JavaScript is a loosely-typed language, which means you do not declare the data type of a variable explicitly. In a basic variable assignment expression, e.g., var i = 4;, the value that assigns to the variable determines the data type of the variable. As you assign different types of data to the same variable, its data type changes as well. Given the nature of JavaScript, finding out what data type a variable represents before using it is very important.

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JavaScript Static Properties and Methods

In JavaScript Object Creation and Object Methods and Properties, we talked about methods and properties that are tied to an object. Without an object, these properties are unusable and inaccessible to other codes. There is another type of members – static methods and properties. These are only accessible via the class itself. These are even inaccessible if referenced via objects.