concat()

Since: DataTables 1.10

Combine multiple API instances to create a single new instance.

Description

The concat() method will combine the result set of two or more DataTables API instances into a single API instance.

This method makes use of the fact that DataTables API objects are "array like", in that they inherit a lot of the abilities and methods of the Javascript Array type. In this case, this method is a proxy for the Javascript Array.prototype.concat method and is provided as a utility method for the DataTables API. For more information about the original method, please refer to the Mozilla MDN documentation for concat.

Type

function concat( a [, b [, ... ] ] )

Description:

Concatenate two or more API instances together

Parameters:

Returns:

	Name	Type	Optional
1	`a`	`DataTables.Api`	No
	API instance to concatenate to the initial instance.
2	`b`	`DataTables.Api`	Yes - default:
	Additional API instance(s) to concatenate to the initial instance.

DataTables.Api

New API instance with the values from all passed in instances concatenated into its result set.

Example

Concat data from two sources:

var table = $('#example').DataTable();

var data = table.column( 0 ).data()
	.concat( table.column( 1 ).data() );