The plugin is appending itself to the body element, rather than the tables parent element so if in your application you clear a main-content area to load data via ajax or something then the FixedHeader DOM elements are not removed. The FixedHeader remains on other pages this way. Hopefully that makes sense.
I propose making the following change to the FixedHeader plugin: add a new option called "sParentNode" which defaults to the body to maintain backwards compatibility. If this is set to something else, '#main-content' for instance, then the plugin will append itself to that element instead. This is a very minor change to the _fnCloneTable method (starting at about line 325):
I propose making the following change to the FixedHeader plugin: add a new option called "sParentNode" which defaults to the body to maintain backwards compatibility. If this is set to something else, '#main-content' for instance, then the plugin will append itself to that element instead. This is a very minor change to the _fnCloneTable method (starting at about line 325):
if(s.sParentNode != 'body'){
$(s.sParentNode).appendChild(nDiv);
}
else{
document.body.appendChild(nDiv)
}