I have been trying to figure out how I could implement your suggestion here 
with the html elements and click listeners.  I have been looking at 
datatable.setCell but I am not sure how I can set the metadata tags 
attributes or tie the click listeners.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:29:00 PM UTC-7, asgallant wrote:
>
> Each visualization returns either the row, column, or both, of the 
> selected element, and generally, they return whatever is sufficient to 
> identify specifically what was selected.  The Table visualization was only 
> designed for selecting rows, not individual cells, and so it only returns 
> the row selected.
>
> If you want to get creative and sneaky, you can format your data as HTML 
> elements and embed row and column metadata as tag attributes.  Attach 
> "click" event listeners to all the data HTML elements and pull the row and 
> column info from the tags.
>
> You can also make a feature 
> request<http://code.google.com/p/google-visualization-api-issues/issues/list>for
>  the ability to select cells or columns (perhaps an option to indicate 
> what you want to be able to select?), but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting 
> for it to be implemented.  The API team has indicated in the past that the 
> Table visualization is unlikely to be updated any time soon.
>
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:01:02 PM UTC-4, Dan Franko wrote:
>>
>> Hello, 
>>
>> This is my first post.  I've been trying to figure out why getSelection 
>> doesn't return the current column as well as the row?  There's a mention on 
>> https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/events#The_Select_Eventthat
>>  "Note 
>> that the table 
>> chart<https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/table> 
>> only 
>> fires row selection events; however, the code is generic, and can be used 
>> for row, column, and cell selection events," on that same page.  Is it 
>> possible to get the selected column as well?
>>
>> I doesn't even work as expected on the playground.
>>
>>
>> https://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization#select_event
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>

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