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On the DataTables blog you will find news, announcements and tutorials about DataTables and its suite of extensions.
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Running a survey with Editor
Recently, you might have noticed the banner at the top of the DataTables pages, entreating you to fill in a survey about how you use DataTables. If you haven't filled out the survey yet, please do so. I'm reading every reply and building a picture of how DataTables is being used, what its strengths and weaknesses are, and forming a plan for the future.
The survey will run for two weeks, after which I will compile the results and write up a blog post discussing the insights gleaned from it. Before then, I want to detail how I've used Editor to create the survey, which will be done over a series of posts.
Editor 2.5 and ColumnControl 1.1
I'm delighted to announce the side-by-side release of Editor 2.5.0 and ColumnControl 1.1.0. Both are progression releases, building on the solid foundation of what has gone before. They each introduce new features as well as general improvements and fixes. In this post, I'll cover the main new features.
Server-side processing
First, let's look at why these two pieces of software were released at the same time - ColumnControl now has support for server-side processing, and the Editor server-side libraries have full support for this mode.
If you aren't yet familiar with server-side processing in DataTables, it is a mode of operation where the majority of data operations are handed off to a server-side program (typically an SQL engine), which is optimised for search, ordering and paging, replying with only the data to be displayed for each page. This allows the table to readily display millions of rows without needing to send the full data set to the client-side.
Outage - post incident review
On 29th July 2025, the DataTables.net site had a major outage as a result of an attack. This took out the main site with its examples and documentation, the support forum, and the sub-domains, including, most importantly, the DataTables CDN.
Digging into such an event, when something has gone so wrong, is not a fun thing to do, but it is important for me to do so I can learn what I can do better in future, for you so you can understand what happened and the challenges faced, and for the community so we can try to stop this sort of thing happening in future.
Historic blog posts
2025
- Landing page demo breakdown 18th Jun 2025
- Introducing ColumnControl 28th May 2025
- DataTables 2.3 30th Apr 2025
- Download builder updates 12th Feb 2025
- Editor 2.4 and DataTables 2.2 8th Jan 2025
2024
- Address auto-complete with Editor 20th Sep 2024
- DataTables React component 21st Aug 2024
- Ordering sequence plugin 26th Jul 2024
- DataTables 2.1 19th Jul 2024
- Input Paging plugin 28th May 2024
- DataTables 2! 15th Mar 2024
2023
- Experiment: Import Maps 7th Mar 2023
- Loaders for plug-ins 28th Feb 2023
- Editor 2.1 10th Feb 2023
2022
- Vue3 component 22nd Jun 2022
- RequireJS anyone? 20th Jun 2022
- DataTables 1.12 13th May 2022
- Social Media for DataTables and CloudTables 14th Feb 2022
2021
- Introducing StateRestore 26th Nov 2021
- Fuzzy Search Plug-in 17th Sep 2021
- Cascading lists in Editor (part 2!) 8th Jul 2021
- Bootstrap 5 and Bulma styling 10th Jun 2021
- Type Detection Library 17th May 2021
- Internationalisation Contributions 9th Apr 2021
- Editor 2 9th Mar 2021
- Bootstrapped Podcast 29th Jan 2021
2020
- Highcharts Integration 1st Oct 2020
- Introducing SearchBuilder 15th Sep 2020
- Editor QR Scanner Integration 10th Jul 2020
- Introducing CloudTables 1st Jun 2020
- Using Editor's libraries for server-side processing 12th May 2020
- SearchPanes Release 13th Jan 2020
- RowGroup Tricks and Tips 5th Jan 2020
2019
- October releases - 2019 2nd Oct 2019
- DataTables download statistics - 2019 29th Jul 2019
- Scroll To Top 21st Jun 2019
- Refreshing data before editing 15th Apr 2019
- Installing Editor in WordPress 15th Feb 2019
- Parent / child editing in child rows 11th Jan 2019
2018
- Debugger update 12th Jul 2018
- SearchFade 8th May 2018
2017
- Vertical scroll fitting 31st Dec 2017
- Experiment: SearchPane 30th Nov 2017
- Queuing changes in Editor 24th Oct 2017
- Cascading lists in Editor 1st Sep 2017
- Editor and NPM 31st Aug 2017
- Deep linking into DataTables 24th Jul 2017
- Always visible editing panel 30th Jun 2017
- Iterators in DataTables 31st May 2017
- RowGroup - new extension 7th Apr 2017
- Ajax loaded row details 31st Mar 2017
- Locale based sorting 28th Feb 2017
- Search highlighting with mark.js 19th Jan 2017
2016
- Sorting with absolute positioned data 23rd Dec 2016
- Editor 1.6 16th Dec 2016
- Dynamic enum sorting 16th Jun 2016
- Spring updates - 2016 24th May 2016
- Parent / child editing with Editor 25th Mar 2016
- Ellipsis renderer 26th Feb 2016
- Generator update 21st Jan 2016
2015
- Download statistics 31st Dec 2015
- NPM and Bower 9th Nov 2015
- Editor's server-side events 2nd Oct 2015
- Multi-row bulk editing 11th Sep 2015
- Update extravaganza 13th Aug 2015
- Git repo structure update 2nd Jun 2015
- DataTables 1.10.7 30th Apr 2015
- Vertical page fitting 10th Apr 2015
- Editor 1.4 / DataTables 1.10.5 12th Feb 2015
2014
- Ultimate date / time sorting plug-in 18th Dec 2014
- Editor 1.4 beta - .NET 4th Dec 2014
- Table captions 7th Nov 2014
- Search result highlighting 22nd Oct 2014
- DataTables 1.10.3 9th Oct 2014
- Sliding child rows 2nd Oct 2014
- Alphabet input search - Part III 22nd Sep 2014
- Permanent inline checkboxes 9th Sep 2014
- Alphabet input search - Part II 2nd Sep 2014
- Alphabet input search - Part I 26th Aug 2014
- Business: UK VAT exchange rates 8th Aug 2014
- Duplicate buttons in Editor 25th Jul 2014
- Introducing Responsive for DataTables 16th Jul 2014
- DataTables 1.10.1, Editor 1.3.2 and more 15th Jul 2014
- Nominet Internet Awards shortlist 17th Jun 2014
- Font Awesome integration 6th Jun 2014
- Support and forums updates 26th May 2014
- DataTables 1.10.0 released 1st May 2014
- DataTables 1.10.0 release candidate 25th Apr 2014
- DataTables 1.10 beta 4th Feb 2014
- HTML 5 Clipboard and File APIs 31st Jan 2014
- JS Bin update 24th Jan 2014
2012
- Orthogonal data 9th Jul 2012
- Inline editing 31st May 2012
- Introducing Editor 4th May 2012
- DataTables debugger 26th Feb 2012
- Twitter Bootstrap 2 1st Feb 2012
- Microsoft CDN 28th Jan 2012
- localStorage for state saving 16th Jan 2012
2011
- Twitter Bootstrap 8th Dec 2011
- Site updates - JS Bin and more 1st Nov 2011
- Getting started with DataTables 27th Aug 2011
- DataTables support 29th Jun 2011
- Drill-down rows 19th Jun 2011
- Introducing Scroller 11th Jun 2011
- DataTables 1.8 4th Jun 2011
- Creating beautiful and functional tables with DataTables 10th May 2011
- Extended data source options with DataTables 1st May 2011