Blog

On the DataTables blog you will find news, announcements and tutorials about DataTables and its suite of extensions. New posts are published (usually!) monthly, with additional news items in between.

9th Apr 2021

By Sandy Galloway -

Internationalisation Contributions

DataTables's internationalisation plug-ins allow the presentation layer of DataTables to be localised. The aim has always been to make it as easy as possible for the community to submit translations for DataTables. Over the years a number of contributors have submitted pull requests on Github for 84 different languages. If you are one of these contributors, we would like to thank you for improving DataTables! As time has gone on however, more configurable language options have been added to DataTables and its extensions which has lead to a lot of the languages being left incomplete.

A couple of months ago we deployed a new tool to allow people to contribute to the internationalisation plug-ins without having to create a pull request. The ease of use of this tool has meant many new submissions have been made, with several entirely new translations added. We hope this new tool, along with this blog post, will make it easier for more people to contribute to DataTables and complete the missing translations.

9th Mar 2021

By Allan Jardine -

Editor 2

I am delighted to introduce Editor 2! It has been almost 9 years since I originally introduced Editor, and the v1 series of releases have introduced a large number of major new features, including multi-row editing, custom templates, and support for .NET and NodeJS on the server-side. Now v2 is here.

The major new features of Editor 2 are:

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

This article discusses these, upgrades, licensing and more in detail.

29th Jan 2021

By Allan Jardine -

Bootstrapped Podcast

I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Steve McLeod of the Bootstrapped podcast. It was recorded and is now available as a podcast. We discuss how I started DataTables and progressed from having it as a side project to a full time job with a company employing three people. If you've ever wondered about the history of DataTables, this is a great place to start.

Historic blog posts

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
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
Debugger update 12th Jul 2018
SearchFade 8th May 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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