DataTables is a Javascript HTML table enhancing library. It is a highly flexible tool, built upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, that adds all of these advanced features to any HTML table.

These examples will show you how to perform tasks ranging from something as simple as applying DataTables to an HTML table, right the way through to doing server-side processing with pipelining …

This section details the requirements DataTables has of your HTML tables, what files you need to include to have DataTables enhance your tables, how to include them and how to run DataTables.

The key part of the installation of DataTables is including the DataTables source files on your page. As noted at the top of this page, this simply involves including the DataTables Javascript and CSS files.

A table must be available on the page for DataTables to use. This examples shows an empty table element being initialising as a DataTable with a set of data from a JavaScript array.

The documentation on this page contains instructions for including the DataTables and Editor Javascript libraries on your own web-pages and initialising them for use.

As long as Javascript can access the data, you can send it to DataTables (be it from a custom Ajax call, a WebSocket or just a good old fashioned array of data).

This reference details the public APIs that DataTables and its extensions present, with all of the information that you, the developers using DataTables, need to be able to interact with the table …

If you are upgrading an old version of a DataTables CDN or downloaded file created by this download builder and want to use the same build options with the latest versions, look in the JS file header and …

Apr 25, 2011 · This example shows how easy it is to add searching, ordering and paging to your HTML table by simply running DataTables on it. For further and more complex examples of using …