Simple pagination in javascript

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I'll address any questions you have... but here is an improved pattern you should follow to reduce code duplication.

As a sidenote though, you should consider not doing pagination on client-side. Since if you have a huge dataset, it would mean you need to download all the data before your page loads. Better to implement server-side pagination instead.

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Lzp0dw83/

HTML

<div id="listingTable"></div>
<a href="javascript:prevPage()" id="btn_prev">Prev</a>
<a href="javascript:nextPage()" id="btn_next">Next</a>
page: <span id="page"></span>

Javascript (put anywhere):

var current_page = 1;
var records_per_page = 2;

var objJson = [
    { adName: "AdName 1"},
    { adName: "AdName 2"},
    { adName: "AdName 3"},
    { adName: "AdName 4"},
    { adName: "AdName 5"},
    { adName: "AdName 6"},
    { adName: "AdName 7"},
    { adName: "AdName 8"},
    { adName: "AdName 9"},
    { adName: "AdName 10"}
]; // Can be obtained from another source, such as your objJson variable

function prevPage()
{
    if (current_page > 1) {
        current_page--;
        changePage(current_page);
    }
}

function nextPage()
{
    if (current_page < numPages()) {
        current_page++;
        changePage(current_page);
    }
}

function changePage(page)
{
    var btn_next = document.getElementById("btn_next");
    var btn_prev = document.getElementById("btn_prev");
    var listing_table = document.getElementById("listingTable");
    var page_span = document.getElementById("page");

    // Validate page
    if (page < 1) page = 1;
    if (page > numPages()) page = numPages();

    listing_table.innerHTML = "";

    for (var i = (page-1) * records_per_page; i < (page * records_per_page); i++) {
        listing_table.innerHTML += objJson[i].adName + "<br>";
    }
    page_span.innerHTML = page;

    if (page == 1) {
        btn_prev.style.visibility = "hidden";
    } else {
        btn_prev.style.visibility = "visible";
    }

    if (page == numPages()) {
        btn_next.style.visibility = "hidden";
    } else {
        btn_next.style.visibility = "visible";
    }
}

function numPages()
{
    return Math.ceil(objJson.length / records_per_page);
}

window.onload = function() {
    changePage(1);
};

UPDATE 2014/08/27

There is a bug above, where the for loop errors out when a particular page (the last page usually) does not contain records_per_page number of records, as it tries to access a non-existent index.

The fix is simple enough, by adding an extra checking condition into the for loop to account for the size of objJson:

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Lzp0dw83/1/

for (var i = (page-1) * records_per_page; i < (page * records_per_page) && i < objJson.length; i++)

~ Answered on 2014-08-21 20:31:14


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