Display just the table (no search box, no summary) when the table only has a few rows (#147)

* display only the table (no controls) if it fits in one page

* Version 1.4.3

Author: mwouts

LICENSE

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2019-2022 Marc Wouts
+Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Marc Wouts
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

docs/advanced_parameters.md

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ opt.lengthMenu = [5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500]
 
 ## Removing the search box
 
-By default, datatables comes with a search box, a pagination control, a table summary, etc.
+By default, datatables that don't fit in one page come with a search box, a pagination control, a table summary, etc.
 You can select which elements are actually displayed using
 DataTables' [`dom` option](https://datatables.net/reference/option/dom) with e.g.:
 

docs/changelog.md

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 ITables ChangeLog
 =================
 
+1.4.3 (2023-01-14)
+------------------
+
+**Changed**
+- When a table is made of only a few rows, we display just the table (not the search box, pagination control, etc)
+
+
 1.4.2 (2022-12-23)
 ------------------
 

itables/javascript.py

@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ def to_html_datatable(df=None, caption=None, tableId=None, connected=True, **kwa
     css = kwargs.pop("css")
     tags = kwargs.pop("tags")
 
+    # Only display the table if the rows fit on one 'page'
+    if "dom" not in kwargs and len(df) <= 10:  # the default page has 10 rows
+        if "lengthMenu" not in kwargs or len(df) <= min(kwargs["lengthMenu"]):
+            kwargs["dom"] = "t"
+
     if caption is not None:
         tags = '{}<caption style="white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden">{}</caption>'.format(
             tags, caption

itables/version.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """ITables' version number"""
 
-__version__ = "1.4.2"
+__version__ = "1.4.3"