toArray()

Create a native Javascript array object from an API instance.

Description

The DataTables API object provides a lot of the methods that you would expect to find in a native Javascript array and generally acts a lot like an array, but there are times when you want to work directly with a Javascript array rather than a DataTables API instance. This method can be used to create a native Javascript array which contains the same items as contained in the API instance's result set.

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.

Type

Example

var table = new DataTable('#myTable');

var plainArray = table
	.column(0)
	.data()
	.toArray();