Tabulator Modules

Tabulator Modules are my opinionated modules for writing faster and less code when using the Tabulator library.

Getting Started

Load JavaScript

Option #1: In the browser

<!-- In the browser -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/tabulator-modules/dist/tabulator-modules.min.js"></script>

Option #2: In Node

# Install from node package manager
npm i tabulator-modules

// load the library
require('tabulator-modules');

Tabulator.Create()

REQUIRED: In order to use this library you must replace the default new Tabulator(element, config) with
Tabulator.Create(element, config). The signature is the same, you are just copying and pasting Tabulator.Create to replace new Tabulator in your code where you want to use this library. Both setups will work, but the default new Tabulator(element, config) won't run the Tabulator Modules code on that particular table.

OPTIONAL: A third argument can be passed to Tabulator.Create to set a namespace for subsequent events. This can be useful for when you want events to be filtered for certain situations and not simply be global. The default namespace is all. Read more.

// This setup ignores the Tabulator Modules
var table = new Tabulator("#example-table", {
	data: [...],
	columns: [
		{...},
		{...},
		{...},
		...
	],
});

// This setup uses the Tabulator Modules
var table = Tabulator.Create("#example-table", {
	data: [...],
	columns: [
		{...},
		{...},
		{...},
		...
	],
});

Formatting

This library adds custom formatters on top of the built-in formatters like money, tickCross, star, etc.

These new custom formatter provided in the library are...

• Arguments
  • Takes in any type of value and outputs a string representation of the value
    • for example, {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, 3: 4} becomes <div><span title="(object) object{4}" data-type="object">object{4}</span></div>
  • Aliases: args, argument, arguments, params, parameter, parameters
• Boolean
  • Takes in truthy or falsey values and outputs a tickCross
  • Aliases: bool, boolean, tickCross
• Duration
  • Displays, and converts, a formatted and human-readable number representing time
  • Aliases: duration, minDuration, maxDuration, timeMs, minTimeMs, maxTimeMs
• Files
  • Takes in an object, or array of objects, specifically formatted to display urls
  • Aliases: file, files
• List
  • Gets all the values in a column and create a header filter with a dropdown of those values
  • Aliases: list
• List of Arrays
  • Very similar to list, but is used for a value can be an array, it will parse the array for individual values
  • Aliases: list[]
• Min/Max
  • When values in a column are numbers, it will create a header filter of min and/or max inputs
  • Aliases: minMax, min, max
• Min/Max for Array length
  • Same as minMax, but for when values are arrays. It will use the length of the array as the min/max size comparison
  • Aliases: minMax[], min[], max[]
• Min/Max for Object Keys
  • Same as minMax, but for when values objects. It will use the number of object keys as the min/max size comparison
  • Aliases: minMax{}, min{}, max{}
• Number
  • Filters and sorts values as numbers
  • Aliases: number, num, int, integer
• Object
  • Takes complex objects are values, and represents, filters and sorts them as strings
  • Aliases: object, obj, compound
• RegExp
  • Used for when teh values are regex expressions. The header filter will be a matching test case for regex expression
  • Aliases: regex, RegExp
• Strings
  • Advanced options for formatting for strings values. text provides additional advanced filtering. html is the same as test with support of html chars
  • Aliases: string, str
  • Aliases: text
  • Aliases: html
• Time Ago
  • Takes in a Unix timestamp (in seconds) and outputs a human-readable string representing how long ago that timestamp was
  • Aliases: timeAgo, minTimeAgo, maxTimeAgo
• Urls
  • Takes in value that is a url, object representation of a url, or an array of urls/objects, and converts them to links
  • Aliases: url, urls

Arguments

Displays a string shorthand representation of value. Designed to provide a short text description of a variable or argument along its type for styling. So instead of showing an entire array of 100 items, the user represents that as a succinct array[100]

Filtering and Sorting is done on the text representation, not the value itself.

Formatter Aliases

args, argument, arguments, params, parameter, parameters

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	type: 'string', // null|string - if set, will force this value to any items with missing types. Defaults to `null`
	prefix: '<div>', // string - text displayed before the output. Defaults to `<div>`
	suffix: '</div>', // string - text displayed after the output. Defaults to `</div>`
	join: '<br>', // string - if value is a array of args, then they are join by this. Defaults to "\n"
	modify: false, // false|function - function that can alter the text before processing. Defaults to `false`
	textLimit: false, // integer|boolean - length of the max size of the cell value before truncating. Defaults to `false`
	moreText: '...', // string - ellipsis text after truncated text. Defaults to `...`
	htmlChars: false, // boolean - should this convert html entities to be seen in the output. Defaults to `false`

};
headerFilterFuncParams = {
	strict: false, // boolean - setting this to falses make the filter comparison case-insenstive. Defaults to `true`
};

Input Type

object|object[]|mixed Both single args object and an array of args objects are supported.

Output

By default, it will convert any value(s) to a human-readable string that will apply a html formatting that will allow the user to apply css to delineate certain situations. You can have a single argument, or an array of arguments. If it is an array, it will be joined by the formatterParams.join setting, which defaults to \n

This will truncate a long string if the formatterParams.textLimit is set. This will also convert a string to HTML entities for the title tag attribute.

const input = {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, 3: 4}, output = `<div><span title="(object) object{4}" data-type="object">object{4}</span></div>`;
const input = [[1, 2, 3]], output = `<div><span title="(array) array[3]" data-type="array">array[3]</span></div>`;
const input = [null], output = `<div><span title="(null) null" data-type="null">null</span></div>`;
const input = true, output = `<div><span title="(boolean) true" data-type="boolean">true</span></div>`;
const input = Infinity, output = `<div><span title="(number) Infinity" data-type="number">Infinity</span></div>`;
const input = 'abc"def', output = `<div><span title="(string) abc&amp;quot;def" data-type="string">abc"def</span></div>`;
const input = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
	output = `<div><span title="(string) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" data-type="string">abcdefghijkl...</span></div>`;
// etc.

There are a few gotchas to be aware with the setup above. Since this accepts both a single argument and an array of arguments, if you want to force a single argument to be of type array, you must set the value to be an array of array (like above). Otherwise, it will treat it as multiple arguments (like below).

Also, null and undefined values result in an empty string. If you want to force the conversion to arguments you must, again, wrap it in an array (like above). Otherwise, it will act as if there are no arguments set.

const input = null, output = ``;
const input = [1, 2, 3], output = `<div><span title="(integer) 1" data-type="integer">1</span>
<span title="(integer) 2" data-type="integer">2</span>
<span title="(integer) 3" data-type="integer">3</span></div>`;

If an object is set with text and type keys, it will use that information directly with no variable conversion. This always you to set custom type and text values.

const input = {type: 'array', text: 'array[5]'}, output = `<div><span title="(array) array[5]" data-type="array">array[5]</span></div>`;
const input = {type: 'object', text: 'WP_Post{72}'}, output = `<div><span title="(object) WP_Post{72}" data-type="object">WP_Post{72}</span></div>`;
const input = {type: 'callable', text: 'Closure()'}, output = `<div><span title="(callable) Closure()" data-type="callable">Closure()</span></div>`;
const input = [{type: 'string', text: 'a'}, {type: 'integer', text: 0}],
	output = `<div><span title="(string) a" data-type="string">a</span>
<span title="(integer) 0" data-type="integer">0</span></div>`;
// etc.

These values are strictly arbitrary. It simply creates a span tag and populates the title, data-type and inner html. It is up to the uesr to decide the css styling for these situations. Examples would be...

.tabulator-cell [data-type] {
	white-space:   pre;
	display:       block;
	font-weight:   bold;
	text-overflow: ellipsis;
	overflow:      hidden;
}

.tabulator-cell [data-type="null"] {
	color:          gray;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

.tabulator-cell [data-type="boolean"] {
	color:          purple;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

.tabulator-cell [data-type="string"] {
	color: green;
}

.tabulator-cell [data-type="some_random_custom_text"] {
	opacity: .5;
}

Boolean

Formatter: same as tickCross but adds formatterParams: allowEmpty and allowTruthy to true

Sorter: set to boolean

Filter: set to tickCross with headerFilterParams: tristate to true

Formatter Aliases

bool, boolean, tickCross

Additional Params

None

Input Type

boolean or any truthy or falsey value

Output

Same as tickCross

Duration

This is the same as the minMax formatter, but it has extra formatter params for displaying time durations

Adds the minMaxFilterEditor DOM elements seen here: https://tabulator.info/examples/#filter-header

minDuration only shows the min DOM filter

maxDuration only shows the max DOM filter

Formatter Aliases

duration, minDuration, maxDuration

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	unit: 'ms', // string - unit of measurement. Defaults to `ms`
	prefix: '', // string - prefix text to display in front of value. Defaults to empty string
	suffix: ' ms', // string - suffix tex to display after value. Deafults to ` ` + $unit
	precision: 2, // integer - number of decimal precisio to display. Defaults to `2`
	bottomSum: true, // boolean - show sum of the entire dataset at the bottom of the column. Defaults to `false`
};
bottomCalcParams = {
	prefix: '$ ', // string - text to display before the bottomSum. Defaults to ``
	suffix: ' ms', // string - text to display after the bottomSum. Defaults to ``
	locales: 'en-US', // string|undefined - toLocaleString()'s locales string as a BCP 47 language tag. Defaults to `undefined`
	options: {style: 'currency'}, // object - toLocaleString()'s options object adjusting the output format. Defaults to `{minimumFractionDigits: 0, maximumFractionDigits: 0}`
}

Input Type

number

Output

const input = 123.456789, output = `123.46 ms`;

Files

An object, or an array of objects, with text and url keys. text represents the text visible to the user and url represents a link-protocol url that makes it possible to go directly to a line and file in an IDE.

Formatter Aliases

file, files

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	className: '', // string - class(es) to be added to the link tag
	join: '<br>', // string - if an array of files, then this is how they should be joined. Defaults to ` | `
};
headerFilterFuncParams = {
	strict: false, // boolean - setting this to false makes the filter comparison case-insenstive. Defaults to `true`
};

Input Type

object|object[]

Output

const input = {url: '#', text: 'abc'}, output = `<a href="#" target="_blank">abc</a>`;
const input = [{url: '#', text: 'abc'}, {url: '#', text: 'def'}], output = `<a href="#" target="_blank">abc</a> | <a href="#" target="_blank">def</a>`;

List

Same as list editor but for headerFilter and adds headerFilterParams: clearable and valuesLookup to true

Formatter Aliases

list

Additional Params

None

Input Type

mixed

Output

Default Tabulator functionality

List of Arrays

Same as list formatter, but instead of one value, this allows for values to be an array of values. This can parse the array and add them to the filter list individually.

const data = [
	'a',
	['b', 'c'],
	'c',
	['d'],
	['a', 'c', 'e'],
];
const filterListChocies = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'];

Formatter Aliases

list[]

Additional Params

None

Input Type

string|string[]

Output

Default Tabulator functionality

Min/Max

Adds the minMaxFilterEditor DOM elements seen here: https://tabulator.info/examples/#filter-header

min only shows the min DOM filter

max only shows the max DOM filter

Formatter Aliases

minMax, min, max

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	bottomSum: true, // boolean - show sum of the entire dataset at the bottom of the column. Defaults to `false`
};
bottomCalcParams = {
	prefix: '$ ', // string - text to display before the bottomSum. Defaults to ``
	suffix: ' ms', // string - text to display after the bottomSum. Defaults to ``
	locales: 'en-US', // string|undefined - toLocaleString()'s locales string as a BCP 47 language tag. Defaults to `undefined`
	options: {style: 'currency'}, // object - toLocaleString()'s options object adjusting the output format. Defaults to `{minimumFractionDigits: 0, maximumFractionDigits: 0}`
}

Input Type

number

Output

Default Tabulator functionality

Min/Max for Array length

Same as minMax expect this accepts an array as the value and does the minMax sorting and filtering against the number of items in the array.

Formatter Aliases

minMax[], min[], max[]

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	showPopup: true, // boolean|integer|function|regex - show full stringified version of the value in a popup on click. Defaults to `false`
	popupModify: false, // false|function - function that can alter the popup text before processing. Defaults to `false`
	popupTextLimit: false, // integer|boolean - length of the max size of the popup text before truncating. Defaults to `false`
	popupMoreText: false, // string - ellipsis text after truncated text. Defaults to `...`
	popupHtmlChars: false, // boolean - should this convert html entities to be seen in the output. Defaults to `false`
	popupWhiteSpace: 'normal', // string - type of white-space css style. Defaults to `pre`
	popupSpace: false, // number|string|null - used to insert white space into the output JSON string for readability purposes. Defaults to 4
	popupPrefix: false, // Defaults to `<div style="white-space: ${formatterParams.whiteSpace}; max-width: 50vw; max-height: 50vh">`
	popupSuffix: false, // Defaults to `</div>`
};

Input Type

array

Output

const input = [1, 2, 3], output = `3`; // because the array length is 3

Min/Max for Object Keys

Same as minMax expect this accepts an object as the value and does the minMax sorting and filtering against the number of keys in the object.

Formatter Aliases

minMax{}, min{}, max{}

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	showPopup: (content, params, cell, onRendered, e) => content !== '', // boolean|integer|function|regex - show full stringified version of the value in a popup on click. Defaults to `false`
	popupModify: false, // false|function - function that can alter the popup text before processing. Defaults to `false`
	popupTextLimit: false, // integer|boolean - length of the max size of the popup text before truncating. Defaults to `false`
	popupMoreText: false, // string - ellipsis text after truncated text. Defaults to `...`
	popupHtmlChars: false, // boolean - should this convert html entities to be seen in the output. Defaults to `false`
	popupWhiteSpace: 'normal', // string - type of white-space css style. Defaults to `pre`
	popupSpace: false, // number|string|null - used to insert white space into the output JSON string for readability purposes. Defaults to 4
	popupPrefix: false, // Defaults to `<div style="white-space: ${formatterParams.whiteSpace}; max-width: 50vw; max-height: 50vh">`
	popupSuffix: false, // Defaults to `</div>`
};

Input Type

object

Output

const input = {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, d: 4, e: 5}, output = `5`; // because there are 5 keys: a, b, c, d and e

Number

Sorter: set to number

Filter: set to input

Formatter Aliases

number, num, int, integer

Additional Params

None

Input Type

number

Output

Default Tabulator functionality

Object

This will stringify an object for human-readable representation. However, this can be changed to only show the number of keys in the object with the showKeys formatter param.

it is sorted and filtered by the formatted text.

Formatter Aliases

object, obj, compound

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	// Cell
	showKeys: true, // boolean - wheather or not to show the number of object keys instead of the stringified version of the object. Default to `false`
	modify: false, // false|function - function that can alter the text before processing. Defaults to `false`
	textLimit: false, // integer|boolean - length of the max size of the cell value before truncating. Defaults to `false`
	moreText: '...', // string - ellipsis text after truncated text. Defaults to `...`
	htmlChars: false, // boolean - should this convert html entities to be seen in the output. Defaults to `false`
	whiteSpace: 'normal', // string - type of white-space css style. Defaults to `pre`
	space: false, // number|string|null - used to insert white space into the output JSON string for readability purposes. Defaults to 0
	prefix: false, // Defaults to `<div style="white-space: ${formatterParams.whiteSpace};">`
	suffix: false, // Defaults to `</div>`
	join: '<br>', // string - if an array of objects, then this is how they should be joined. Defaults to `<br>`
	// Popup - popup settings will inherit from the cell settings, but can be overritten with the keys below
	showPopup: /long text/i, // boolean|integer|function|regex - show full stringified version of the value in a popup on click. Defaults to `false`
	popupModify: false, // false|function - function that can alter the popup text before processing. Defaults to `false`
	popupTextLimit: false, // integer|boolean - length of the max size of the popup text before truncating. Defaults to `false`
	popupMoreText: '...', // string - ellipsis text after truncated text. Defaults to `...`
	popupHtmlChars: false, // boolean - should this convert html entities to be seen in the output. Defaults to `false`
	popupWhiteSpace: 'normal', // string - type of white-space css style. Defaults to `pre`
	popupSpace: false, // number|string|null - used to insert white space into the output JSON string for readability purposes. Defaults to 4
	popupPrefix: false, // Defaults to `<div style="white-space: ${formatterParams.whiteSpace}; max-width: 50vw; max-height: 50vh">`
	popupSuffix: false, // Defaults to `</div>`
};
headerFilterFuncParams = {
	strict: false, // boolean - setting this to falses make the filter comparison case-insenstive. Defaults to `true`
};

Input Type

mixed

Output

const input = {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, 3: 4}, output = `<div style="white-space: pre">{"3":4,"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}</div>`;
const input = [1, 2, 3], output = `1<br>2<br>3`;
const input = true, output = `true`;
const input = Infinity, output = `Infinity`;
// etc.

RegExp

This is when the cell value, itself, is a regex statement, and we want to filter with a test value.

NOTE: this is the opposite of this library's custom Tabulator.filters.regex filter. The regex filter is when you want to run a regex test against a row value. To do that, use { headerFilterFunc: Tabulator.filters.regex } in your config instead

Formatter Aliases

regex, RegExp

Additional Params

None

Input Type

RegExp

Output

Default Tabulator functionality

Strings

For display strings. text and html is used for longer strings. It aligns the text to the left and adds the Advanced Filtering Operators. html also sets htmlChars to true

Formatter Aliases

string, str, text, html

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	// Cell
	modify: false, // false|function - function that can alter the text before processing. Defaults to `false`
	textLimit: false, // integer|boolean - length of the max size of the cell value before truncating. Defaults to `false`
	moreText: '...', // string - ellipsis text after truncated text. Defaults to `...`
	htmlChars: false, // boolean - should this convert html entities to be seen in the output. Defaults to `false`
	prefix: false, // Defaults to `<div style="white-space: ${formatterParams.whiteSpace};">`
	suffix: false, // Defaults to `</div>`
	join: '<br>', // string - if an array of objects, then this is how they should be joined. Defaults to `<br>`
	// Popup - popup settings will inherit from the cell settings, but can be overritten with the keys below
	showPopup: 25, // boolean|integer|function|regex - show full stringified version of the value in a popup on click. Defaults to `false`
	popupModify: false, // false|function - function that can alter the popup text before processing. Defaults to `false`
	popupTextLimit: false, // integer|boolean - length of the max size of the popup text before truncating. Defaults to `false`
	popupMoreText: '...', // string - ellipsis text after truncated text. Defaults to `...`
	popupHtmlChars: false, // boolean - should this convert html entities to be seen in the output. Defaults to `false`
	popupWhiteSpace: 'normal', // string - type of white-space css style. Defaults to `pre`
	popupSpace: false, // number|string|null - used to insert white space into the output JSON string for readability purposes. Defaults to 4
	popupPrefix: false, // Defaults to `<div style="white-space: ${formatterParams.whiteSpace}; max-width: 50vw; max-height: 50vh">`
	popupSuffix: false, // Defaults to `</div>`
};

Input Type

string

Output

const input = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', formatterParams = {textLimit: 3}, output = `abc...`;

Time Ago

Similar to duration but this shows the time since a reference date. Can be used to show the last time something was updated.

NOTE: The timestamps are done in seconds, not milliseconds. Date.now() returns milliseconds in JavaScript. So if you are using JavaScript to get the time, make sure it is converted to seconds in the table data. If you're getting your times from another language, like PHP, you should not have to convert it.

Adds the minMaxFilterEditor DOM elements seen here: https://tabulator.info/examples/#filter-header

minTimeAgo only shows the min DOM filter

maxTimeAgo only shows the max DOM filter

Formatter Aliases

timeAgo, minTimeAgo, maxTimeAgo

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	startTime: Date.now() / 1000, // integer|function - Unix timestamp is in seconds to compare against. Defaults to `Date.now() / 1000`
	round: 'round', // string - the JavaScript `Math` object method to format the time with. Defaults to `floor`
};
headerFilterFuncParams = {
	startTime: () => (Date.now() / 1000), // integer|function - Unix timestamp is in seconds to compare against. Defaults to `Date.now() / 1000`
	searchBy: 'h', // string - reduce seconds difference into another unit of measurement. Defaults to `m`
	// searchBy options: `s` => seconds, `m` => minutes, `h` => hours, `d` => days, `y` => years
};

Input Type

interger This should be a timestamp in seconds

Output

const input = Date.now() / 1000 - 120, output = `2m`; // `2m` stands for `2 minutes` since 120 seconds ago is equal to 2 minutes

Urls

Converts a url into a clickable link. It accepts a single url or an array of urls. Objects representing a url is also supported. An object must have at least an href key. Supported keys are href, className and text keys. An attr key is also supported and becomes the html attributes for the link tag. For example, attr: { download: 'download' } will add the download attribute to the link tag. If the url is represted as an object, the values can also be functions. A function will recieve arguments (cell, origUrl, normalizedUrl), where cell is the Tabulator component, origUrl is the original url object, and normalizedUrl is the url converted to a standardized object url. So if origUrl is /user, then normalizedUrl will be { text: '/user', attr: {href: '/user'} }.

Formatter Aliases

url, urls

Additional Params

formatterParams = {
	className: '', // string - class(es) to be added to the link tag. Defaults to ''
	join: '<br>', // string - if an array of files, then this is how they should be joined. Defaults to ` | `
};

Input Type

string|string[]|object|object[] as a valid url, url object, or array of valid urls/url objects

Output

const input = '/abc', output = `<a href="/abc" target="_blank" class="someClass">/abc</a>`;
const input = ['/abc', '/xyz'], output = `<a href="/abc" target="_blank" class="someClass">/abc</a><br><a href="/xyz" target="_blank" class="someClass">/xyz</a>`;
const input = {text: 'click-me', href: '/page', className: 'some-class', attr: {'data-id': () => 5}}, output = `<a data-id="5" href="/page" class="some-class">click-me</a>`;

Additional Details

Advanced Filtering Operators

The object, args, files and minMax{} formatters use advanced filtering operators that has reserved keywords for greater control.

Keywords searches are split on spaces. So search1 search2 is split into two searches, search1 AND search2. If either checks returns false then the filter returns false.

| Operator | Description | Example | |--------------|-----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------| | regex: | regex search (no modifiers) | regex:^wp_.*_filter$ | | i: | case insensitive | i:MacGruber | | regex:i: | regex search (with case insensitive modifier) | regex:i:select\s+\w+.*\s+from | | not: | text not in value | not:NULL | | - | same as not: | -NULL | | + | same as having no operator (default) | +/home/ |

Combining Operators

+back -quarter // include every value that has `back` unless it also has `quarter`
back -quarter // same as above. the `+` is the default operator, so its only there for readability

Double quotes

Since operators are space delimited, if you need a space in your search, you must surround your search with quotes.

regex:"c.*land rocks!" // will match `cleveland rocks!`

And if you need spaces AND double quotes in your search, you can escape the double quotes.

regex:"c.*land \"rocks\"" // will match `cleveland "rocks"`

Formatting Strings

The object and string formatters make extra formatterParams available for formatting text.

These are: textLimit, moreText, htmlChars, prefix and suffix

In addition, object also has whiteSpace and space params when stringify-ing objects

Popups

In addition to object and string, minMax[] and minMax{} also allow for popUp text for long values.

These are the same formatterParams as above, but these keys start with "popup": popupTextLimit, popupMoreText, popupHtmlChars, popupWhiteSpace, popupSpace, popupPrefix and popupSuffix

Displaying a Popup

To activate a popup, set the showPopup key to a truthy value or statement or function.

showPopup accepts four different types of values: boolean, integer, function or regex.

Boolean Type

Simply a static true or false or all cells in that column.

Integer Type

The length of the cell value (as a string) that will trigger a popup. So if formatterParams.showPopup = 3, then any cell value over 3 characters will trigger a popup. If the cell is 3 characters or less, then that cell won't have a popup.

RegExp Type

A regular express that is tested against each cell to determine if it should have a popup. formatterParams.showPopup = /^select/i would show a popup for any cell that starts with select (like a SQL statement).

Function Type

This function gets called on each cell value to determine if it should show a popup. The value returned should be a boolean. For example: formatterParams.showPopup = (text, formatterParams, component, onRendered, e) => text.length > 25 || text[0] === '$'

Custom Functions Available

In case the opinionated modules aren't exactly what you want, the vast majority of the config options can be overwritten. That is to say, this library only uses its default config setup only if the user does not set that key in the column config. However, if that isn't enough flexibility, you can customize your own modules using the same functions that make up the opinionated modules. Most functions in the library are available off the global Tabulator object.

Formatters

Available under the Tabulator.formatters object. These work with the formatter column config key

Tabulator.formatters = {
	args: Function, // Used By: args
	array: Function, // Used By: minMax[]
	files: Function, // Used By: files  
	object: Function, // Used By: object, minMax[]
	timeAgo: Function, // Used By: timeAgo
	urls: Function, // Used By: urls
};

Filters

Available under the Tabulator.filters object. These work with the headerFilterFunc column config key

Tabulator.filters = {
	advanced: Function, // Used By: object, files (also used in args filter) 
	args: Function, // Used By: args
	array: Function, // Used By: minMax[]
	minMax: Function, // Used By: minMax, duration
	object: Function, // Used By: minMax{}
	regex: Function, // Used By: none
	timeAgo: Function, // Used By: timeAgo
};

Sorters

Available under the Tabulator.sorters object. These work with the sorter column config key

Tabulator.sorters = {
	args: Function, // Used By: args
	array: Function, // Used By: minMax[], list[]
	object: Function, // Used By: object, minMax{}, list, files (also used in args sorter) 
};

Pop-ups

Available under the Tabulator.popups object. These work with the clickPopup column config key

Tabulator.popups = {
	object: Function, // Used By: string, object, minMax[], minMax{}
};

Others

MinMax Header Filter Function DOM elements. Works with the headerFilter column config key.

Tabulator.html.minMax = Function; // Module: minMax, minMax[], minMax{}, duration, timeAgo

NOTE: Also uses the headerFilterParams column config. You can optionally set the min value and max value (with number values) of the input field. As well as if both the min and max inputs should be displayed or not (keys: filterMin and filterMax with boolean values). See the minMax module code for more info.

List Lookup. Works with the headerFilterParams.valuesLookup column config key

Tabulator.html.lists = Function; // Module: list[]

ES5 Utilities

Since this library uses some ES5 Util functions. These are also made available on the global Tabulator.helpers object. For example: Tabulator.helpers.arrayColumn(...args)

The available functions are...

arrayColumn(array, columnKey = null, indexKey = null)
compare(a, b)
compare.upperFirst(a, b)
compare.lowerFirst(a, b)
compare.insensitive(a, b)
getFromObjPath(obj, path)
getKey(object, key)
getKeys(object, path)
getValues(object)
hasKey(object, key)
hasKeys(object, path)
isInteger(input)
isObject(input)
safeParse(input, forceParse = true)
safeStringify(input, replacer = null, space = null, forceParse = false)
toAssociativeArray(input)
toHtmlEntities(input)
truncate(input, length, suffix = '…')

jQuery Small Pub/Sub

jQuery Small Pub/Sub is an OPTIONAL dependency. If jQuery Small Pub/Sub is not loaded, this library will still work, its just these custom events won't fire. There are currently 4 custom events to subscribe to...

As of v1.2 all of these events are namespaced as well. So if you want to subscribe to the tabulator-table-setup hook, but only when the namespace was set to my-custom-project, you can do so with the my-custom-project/tabulator-table-setup hook. The namespaced hook runs after the global (or non-namespaced) hook.

Remember: the default namespace is all, but that is not the same as the global hook (or not having a namespace).

/**
 * Table Setup (before the Tabulator table is created)
 *
 * @param object        $options   - options argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespac)`
 * @param string|object $element   - element argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespac)`
 * @param string        $namespace - namespace to filter events by `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @return object - the modified $options object
 */
jQuery.subscribe('tabulator-table-setup', function (options, element, namespace = 'all') {
	// Do something that modifies the options variable
	options.paginationSize ??= 10;
	options.movableColumns ??= true;
	return options
});

/**
 * Column Setup (before the custom modules are run)
 *
 * @param object        $column    - column config object
 * @param string|object $data      - options.data value
 * @param string|object $initial   - initial column config object (incase it was modified by another listener)
 * @param object        $options   - options argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @param string|object $element   - element argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @param string        $namespace - namespace to filter events by `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @return object - the modified $column object
 */
jQuery.subscribe('tabulator-column-setup', function (column, data, initial, options, element, namespace = 'all') {
	// Do something that modifies the column variable
	if (['boolean', 'tickCross'].includes(initial.formatter)) {
		column.width ??= 75;
	}
	return column
});

/**
 * Column Setup (after the custom modules are run)
 *
 * @param object        $column    - column config object
 * @param string|object $data      - options.data value
 * @param string|object $initial   - initial column config object (incase it was modified by another listener)
 * @param object        $options   - options argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @param string|object $element   - element argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @param string        $namespace - namespace to filter events by `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @return object - the modified $column object
 */
jQuery.subscribe('tabulator-column-setup-after', function (column, data, initial, options, element, namespace = 'all') {
	// Do something that modifies the column variable
	if (['boolean', 'tickCross'].includes(initial.formatter)) {
		column.headerWordWrap ??= true;
	}
	return column
});

/**
 * Table Created (after the Tabulator table is created)
 *
 * @param object        $table     - The `Tabulator` instance after its initialized
 * @param string|object $element   - element argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @param object        $options   - options argument from `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @param string        $namespace - namespace to filter events by `new Tabulator(element, options, namespace)`
 * @param mixed      ...parameters - any other parameters passed to `new Tabulator` get appended to the event args
 * @return void
 */
jQuery.subscribe('tabulator-table-created', function (table, element, options, namespace, ...parameters) {
	// Do something, like store the reference to table object somewhere in your app for later use
	someVariable[element] = table;
});