• New features
• Upgrade notes
• Download builder
• Examples
• Detailed release notes

This is the result of the last six months of work (you might have noticed that the blog and other updates have been a little quiet - the work hasn't stopped in the background though!), which has involved a wide range of updates to DataTables core and its extensions. The key highlights are:

• Dependency free - no more jQuery (although still fully compatible if you want to use it)
• TypeScript / ESM-based code
• Improved CSS variable support
• Search and performance improvements

For all that it has been an intense six months of development for DataTables, you won't notice all that much difference in the UI it presents to the end user. There are some improvements, but this has been primarily about updating DataTables to be dependency free while making sure that the upgrade path is an easy one (in the majority of cases, it will be a drop-in replacement).

I don't normally release beta versions, but I think it is appropriate in this case due to the removal of the jQuery dependency. I would very warmly welcome feedback about this beta release. If you encounter any issues with v3 beta, please create a new thread and provide details of the issue. Equally, even if you don't have any issues with the upgrade, let me know! It is all useful data for rolling out v3 to production.

You might notice that most, but not all, of the extensions are available for DataTables 3 in beta form. Editor, SearchPanes and StateRestore are not yet available. Editor is nearly ready, but there are a few new features for Editor 3 that I've yet to complete - it will be released later in April.

Hope you enjoy this new release!

Allan

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who filled in the recent DataTables survey! I've had 341 survey results, and I'll take some time this week to compile the results, try to understand them and set a course for how to take DataTables forwards and to the next level. I'll write up a blog post with the results when done.

Also, just because the survey is over, doesn't mean you can't leave direct feedback. Post in the forum or drop me a message

Allan

2.1 is now generally available on the DataTables download builder and NPM.

There are several pieces of documentation for 2.1:

• High level overview blog post
• Detailed look at the new features
• Detailed notes on upgrading
• Nitty-gritty release notes.

I hope you enjoy using DataTables! If so, I would encourage you to support my work on the project by purchasing Editor if it can help your work, or a supporter package.

Please don't use this thread to report issues / bugs. Open a new thread with a link to a test case showing the problem, so I can track each issue individually.

All the best,
Allan

There are several pieces of documentation for 2.0:

• High level overview blog post
• Detailed look at the new features
• Detailed notes on upgrading
• Nitty-gritty release notes.

I hope you enjoy using DataTables! If so, I would encourage you to support my work on the project by purchasing Editor if it can help your work, or a supporter package.

Please don't use this thread to report issues / bugs. Open a new thread with a link to a test case showing the problem, so I can track each issue individually.

All the best,
Allan

DataTables 2 (nearing release itself) works no problem with jQuery4 (example here), with all its unit tests passing. DataTables 1.13..8 and newer also work fine.

Before the inevitable question - there are no immediate plans to drop jQuery as a requirement for DataTables. I'll write more about this in future, but it would make DataTables as a library significantly larger and vastly increase the support and maintenance burden if I were to replace it. You don't need to write jQuery code at all to use DataTables, jQuery is just a dependency, and with jQuery 4 the dependency size, which was already small, has been reduced further.

Allan

For anyone following along with DataTable 2 development, you'll have noticed that I had initially said it would be released by the end of 2023, then January 2024. Unfortunately, it still isn't quite ready - DataTables 2 itself is ready to go, but there is documentation and packages to update as well as a few final tweaks for the extensions. I'm hopeful it will be ready for release soon, but I'll not release it until it is actually ready (no sense in releasing something that isn't ready to meet an arbitrary deadline!).

If you would like to try it out just now, the nightly builds contain DataTables 2 and all the latest updated for the extensions (some of which are also receiving major updates).

It will be worth the wait
Allan

• Dark mode! You might be using it on this site already, depending on your OS preferences. Dark mode is supported for both the DataTables default styling, and the recently released Bootstrap 5. Information about dark mode is available in the manual.
• Vanilla JS code for the examples. You can now select between jQuery style initialisation, and VanillaJS (with ES6+ based code) for nearly all examples (except SearchBuilder and SearchPanes which are still to be done).

A selector for both dark mode and vanillaJS / jQuery based code is available in the top right (code style only on the example pages). Dark mode is also now fully supported on this and the Editor sites.

There are a lot of changes to make this possible, so it is possible I've missed the odd selector on the site - I'll likely be making tweaks over the next few days.

DataTables 1.13.5, Editor 2.2.0 and all of the extensions have been released today to support dark mode. The download builder and our npm packages are all up to date with these changes.

I'll be writing a blog post with more details in the next few days - until then, I hope you like the changes.

Regards,
Allan

I'm delighted to announce the release of both Editor 2.1.0 and DataTables 1.13.2 today. Editor 2.1 is the cumulation of months of tweaks, features and fixes, and you'll be able to see from its release notes that the changes touch almost every part of the code base. Performance improvements for SearchPanes (which has also been updated to 2.1.1 today) when server-side processing is enabled, have been made for our three server-side platforms - PHP, .NET and Node.js.

The full release notes for Editor 2.1.0 are available here.

DataTables 1.13.2 is a smaller update, but includes the first use of CSS variables in DataTables - in this case to allow customisation of row selection colours (example here to turn the selected rows red), and also the ability to trigger events for tables which are not yet in the document's DOM.

Release notes for DataTables 1.13.2 are available here.

If you run into any questions with these latest releases, please open a new thread with details of the problem and a link to a test case, so individual issues can be correctly tracked and addressed.

As always, I hope you enjoy using DataTables!

Regards,
Allan

New features include:

• Built in date / time rendering and ordering
• Automatic locale rendering for numbers
• Ordering style improvements
• Row colouring improvements

I've written a full blog post about what is in 1.12 if you would like more details on these features.

Also released today are updates to almost every extension for DataTables.

Enjoy
Allan

Edit 1.12.1 is now available to address a couple of issues with internationalisation in 1.12.

Building on the stateSave initialisation option, StateRestore allows users to save multiple different states and restore them at any time, reverting the table back to how it was when the state was saved. You can also easily set which elements of DataTables are saved to a state on a state by state basis. There is a wide range of other options and examples showing what StateRestore can do.

StateRestore is available on our CDN via our download builder or direct file access, also on NPM / Yarn, NuGet, Composer and bower (see the download builder for details). The manual is available here including details on how to customise which elements of DataTables to save.

As always, we would welcome any feedback that you have! If you have any suggestions, please post them here. If you run into any issues, please let us know by creating a new thread with a test case, so we can keep track of individual issues.

Hopefully StateRestore can add some value to your projects!

Thanks,
Sandy

I'm really pleased to announce the release of our latest plug-in for DataTables: FuzzySearch. Full details and examples are available in the blog post introducing the software, but basically it adds the ability to do fuzzy matching rather than exact matching in DataTables. For example search for "Tooyo" and it will still match "Tokyo".

Features include:

• User ability to toggle between fuzzy and exact match searching (see this example)
• Ability to search the matching threshold
• Ability to show the search match score in a column.

This is the latest project Sandy has been working on (with more in the pipeline) and I'm really excited about this one - I think it is a fantastic addition to the DataTables suite, and might get an upgrade to being a first class extension for DataTables in future. It will land in CloudTables soon.

What do you think? How might you use it? What features have we missed? All feedback welcome .

Allan

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Editor 2! I have a detailed blog post about what is in Editor 2 and how to upgrade, but as a summary, the new features include:

• DataTable as an input
• Nested editing
• Inline editing with multiple fields
• Bootstrap 5 support

There are also a whole host of smaller features, tweaks and fixes. A full set of release notes are available.

In terms of upgrading, the process is the same as normal: upgrade your Javascript and CSS for Editor, along with the server-side libraries (if you are using our PHP, NodeJS or .NET libraries). Important If you are using the datetime input, you must now include the DateTime library, as it has been separated from Editor core to improve re-usability. This can easily be done on with the download builder by selecting the DateTime library. You should also be aware that legacy options have been removed in release, although most were deprecated way back in 1.3, so you are unlikely to be using them.

We've updated our licensing model a little as well - the pricing for Editor stays the same, and you will now receive one year of updates to the software from the time of purchase. The software will not expire after this time - you can continue using the latest version from that period of time, or you can select an upgrade package to continue receiving the latest upgrades without interruption. We offer a yearly subscription (with 20% discount on the upgrade package) to make this easier if you choose this option.

For anyone who purchased Editor in 2020 or 2021, you automatically receive a v2 license and one year of upgrades. If you purchased Editor prior to 2020, upgrade pricing will show up automatically on the purchase page when logged in with your original purchasing account.

I hope you all enjoy using Editor 2 as much as we have developing it!

Allan

CloudTables builds upon DataTables, Editor and the rest of our software, presenting a quick and easy way for you to develop database applications through a web UI. You then embed the resulting table and editor directly into your own application giving a seamless interface to your own users.

As well as the ability to define your own databases CloudTables also has:

• Live updates of data as others are editing
• Full auditing - see what has changed and who made the change
• Hosted - no need for potentially complex infrastructure
• Easy data validation

CloudTables is in beta, so there are still features that we plan to add before a full release, but we are very keen to get feedback. If you'd like to give CloudTables a go, please do so! We also have video tutorials to help get started.

There is more detail of CloudTables available in this blog post including how we see it interacting with DataTables and Editor development moving forward.

Support for CloudTables is going to be primarily e-mail based rather than in these forums, but we do welcome feedback here if you'd like to post any here, or use the CloudTables contact option.

Regards,
Allan

SearchBuilder allows end users to quickly build up well structured search conditions so they can find data in a table based on the query they set up. You can also set up an initial query for them, define a query via the API and use state saving.

One thing SearchBuilder doesn't yet do is operate with server-side processing. That is something we will be looking to add into a future version.

SearchBuilder is available on our CDN via our download builder or direct file access, also on NPM / Yarn, NuGet, Composer and bower (see the download builder for details). The manual is available here including details on how to create your own plug-ins for custom search types, and a full set of examples are also available.

As always, feedback is most welcome! If you have any suggestions, please post them here. If you run into any issues, please post in a new thread with a test case, so we can keep track of individual issues.

Enjoy!
Allan

We experienced around six hours of forum downtime overnight (1.30am GMT to 7.30am 5th Nov 2020). During this time the forum was unavailable and login / registration for the site were also unavailable.

The error occurred due to an automatic upgrade of MairaDB which is incompatible with PHP 7.2 under certain configurations. Our database version has been rolled back (no data loss) until this is resolved. It looks like there will be a few sysadmins with headaches this morning from this!

We still believe the automatic upgrade policy is correct to ensure the system is patched and up to date, but we will be monitoring this.

Regards,
Allan

I'm delighted to announce the release of SearchPanes 1.0. We have a detailed blog post about it, but as a quick summary, this is a project that has been Sandy's focus for the last three months and has been developed based on a prototype I made two years ago and asked for feedback from. The feedback has been wonderful, so thank you to everyone who has contributed!

SearchPanes is now a "first class" and fully supported extension for DataTables and is available on our CDN, the download builder and also npm. It also has full summary documentation including information on how to build your own custom pane filters and reference documentation for its options and API methods.

We hope you enjoy using this latest member of the DataTables family! Further feedback so we can continue to develop it is very welcome.

If you run into any questions while using SearchPanes, please post your questions in a new thread so we can keep track of individual issues and ensure they are addressed.

Allan

Some of you might have spotted that DataTables 1.10.16 is now available, but it isn't yet included in the download builder. I'm working on a number of updates to the download builder and want to release them before updating the software it builds. This will be in the next few days.

Regards,
Allan

I'm really pleased to be able to announce updates to DataTables and all of its extensions today. The download builder is up-to-date with the latest changes so you can get up and running with them immediately.

I'll be posting in more detail on the blog in the coming days, but the summary highlights of these releases are:

• DataTables 1.10.10:
  
  • Bug fixes, including better column width handling
  • No longer registers itself as a named AMD module
• Editor 1.5.2
  
  • New datetime field type that includes a calendar picker built into Editor
  • Automatic and built in XSS prevention
• Responsive 2:
  
  • Support for column visibility
  • Modal display option
• All extensions:
  
  • Now available on NPM and bower (this will be the topic of a blog post tomorrow)

and much more! These updates are recommended for everyone using DataTables.

If you run into any issues or have any questions about the new releases, post open a new discussion thread with your question so we can track each individually.

Thanks to all for your support and encouragement,
Allan

I'm delighted to say that our little family has grown with the addition of a little boy, born on Sunday morning. He's not coding yet, but we'll get him going on building the software first and then moved on to fixing some outstanding issues soon :-).

As a result might support responses over the next week or two might be somewhat slower that we've all come to expect - they might also be at random times (3am, etc), but I will be continuing to offer support for my products in the following priority order (and in reverse chronological order - i.e. older first):

• Priority support
• Editor license holders
• Free community support

Another chapter in my own personal life, and thus by extension in DataTables - exciting times for my family and also my future plans for DataTables and its suite of supporting software, more on which soon in the blog.

Best regards to all,
Allan

I'm pleased to announce the release of DataTables 1.10.9 and Editor 1.5.1. Buttons 1.0.3 and Select 1.0.1 are also now available.

These releases focus only on addressing issues that have been found since their previous releases - thank you to everyone who has taken the time to report issue and create test cases showing them!

The latest software is available immediately using the download builder and the DataTables CDN. Editor can be download from its own download page or the download builder.

Release notes:

• DataTables 1.10.9
• Editor 1.5.1.

If you find any issues with the latest software, please open a new thread with a description of the issue and a link to a page showing the problem.

Regards,
Allan

I have just published a little extension on GitHub here allowing the multi selection.

It appears that meanwhile a nice extension was published : Select

So I plan to rewrite my lib to use the Select extension.
Now you can select an area and use Ctrl to add a row to the current selection .
During the redesign I will add the Shift support and maybe improve the behavior of the area selection.

If you have any feedback you are very welcome :)

Regards

A short note to say that Buttons 1.0.1 is now available. It can be downloaded from:

• The DataTables download builder
• The CDN
• As a zip package

This release fixes a number of issues that have come to light since the initial release of Buttons last week. The full list of changes is available in the release notes.

Enjoy!
Allan

I'm delighted to announce a major update to the DataTables site, and almost all of the extensions for DataTables.

I've posted a summary of the changes in the blog, and I'm post more in the blog delving into some of the details of the new features and plug-ins in the coming days.

As a super quick summary:

• Download builder
• Full support for Bootstrap, Foundation and jQuery UI across all extensions
• Editor 1.5 - Multi-row editing
• New extensions:
  
  • Buttons - replaces TableTools' buttons and ColVis - HTML5 export!
  • Select - replaces TableTools' row selection options - much nicer API
  • RowReorder - new extension that does what the name suggests
• Rewrites:
  
  • AutoFill - Fill rows and columns with like data with Editor integration
  • KeyTable - Spreadsheet like keyboard navigation for the table
  • FixedHeader - new drawing method

All extensions now require IE8+ or one of the evergreen browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and Opera) and many require DataTables 1.10.8 which is also now available. A compatibility table shows the requirements and compatibility of extensions in detail.

Inevitably with such a complex release there will be issues. Please bare with me while I sort them out. If you do find any bugs, please open a new thread with details so we can track individual cases.

And with all that said, the most important thing is to enjoy the new software :-)

Regards,
Allan

Its been a little while since my last general project update, so I thought I'd post a little bit of information here before the next major update.

Firstly, 1.10.8 will be released in the first week of August. I would encourage you to try it out the current nightly version (JS / CSS) in your apps / pages, and let me know of any issues you find so they can be addressed before the 1.10.8 release.

Next, I've been saying for about a month and a half now that the next major release of Editor (1.5) and various other supporting plug-ins is only 2 weeks away... This time it is true, alongside the DataTables 1.10.8 release I'll be introducing a number of other releases such as Editor 1.5, new version of AutoFill and KeyTable along with new extensions (Buttons, Select and RowReorder).

I'm extremely excited about these releases, can almost can't wait to get them out to you, but software without good examples and documentation is useless. It is this aspect, and the infrastructure for the software that has taken a bit longer than expected. To those who have read my previous posts about "ready in two weeks" my apologies. It will be worth the wait!

Once the releases are complete I'll be blogging in detail about the new features that are being introduced.

Regards,
Allan

I'm very pleased to announce the release of Editor 1.4.0-beta.1, the second, and likely final beta before 1.4.0 final is released. As always the latest version of Editor can be downloaded form its download page. This is a free upgrade for all license holders (and everyone currently running a trial!), as will be 1.4.0 final.

This release focuses on rounding off the features for the new .NET libraries, including a new MJoin class for one-to-many joins, support for Azure databases, PostgreSQL and more. On the Javascript side the new dependent() method has been introduced which allows fields to be very easily linked with actions defined by user input. I'll be blogging about this in the near future as it is a powerful method that can be used in a number of different ways!

Full release notes (changes from the previous beta) are available on the Editor web-site.

Editor 1.4 is shaping up to be an exciting release, and any feedback you have from the beta will be warmly welcomed. If you run into any issues, please open a new thread so we can discuss and resolve each issue individually.

Regards,
Allan

I'm really pleased to announce the release of DataTables 1.10.4. This is a minor update to DataTables with a number of bug fixes and can be downloaded from the downloads page and is also available on the CDN.

While 1.10.3 was a fairly large release, this edition of DataTables is just a small update to address the known issues. The two most significant changes are:

• cell().invalidate() and cells().invalidate() will now only invalidate the selected cells, rather than the whole row
• The selectors for rows(), columns() and cells() all now work correctly with the deferRender option enabled, rather than throwing an error.

There are a few other fixes, and full release notes are available.

If you have any issues with the update to 1.10.4 please open a new thread with a full description of the issue and a link to a test case, to we can debug and track each individual issue.

Enjoy!
Allan

I'm delighted to announce the availability of DataTables v1.10.3 which can be downloaded now from the downloads page and is also available on the CDN.

For all that this is a minor version bump, there are a number of new features in the release. They are each minor, but overall improve the core offering of the DataTables library. These include:

• Reading DOM sourced data into Javascript objects
• Selectors can be provided as functions
• cells().render() and cell().render() API methods
• iterator() API method
• searchDelay option

There are also a number of bug fixes and updates for the documentation included in this release.

Further details about these new features is available in a blog post introducing 1.10.3.

Full release notes are available.

If you have any issues with the update to 1.10.3 please open a new thread with a full description of the issue and a link to a test case, to we can debug and track each individual issue.

Enjoy!
Allan