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On the DataTables blog you will find news, announcements and tutorials about DataTables and its suite of extensions.
Latest posts
Download builder updates
The download builder is a cornerstone of getting DataTables installed and working in your project. Over the last few weeks, I've been working on several updates for it and will introduce the changes in this post. These include:
- SubResource Integrity (SRI) hashes for security
- Improved
npminstall instructions - React and Vue components
- StackBlitz integration
In this post I go into more detail about the need for the download builder and these changes.
Editor 2.4 and DataTables 2.2
It is always nice to start the New Year with some freshly baked software, so I'm delighted to announce the release of Editor 2.4 and DataTables 2.2. Both are iterative releases, building on the solid foundations of each and introducing new features to make both the development of software with them and the end user use of the software, even more present and flexible.
Editor 2.2 adds two new field types: autocomplete and tags, as well as improved ES module support:
Meanwhile, DataTables 2.2 adds automatic column resizing when the container width changes, improved state saving, ordering for diacritics in columns with HTML content, and more:
Read on for more details of these releases!
Address auto-complete with Editor
When building data input forms with Editor, there are various ways in which a developer can make the end user's life a lot easier - clean, concise, and clear forms are one of Editor's strengths, but you can also make data entry easier for the end user using lookups and auto-completion. There is a good chance that you'll have come across an address auto complete when signing up for services or shipping items on the internet - this article will do a deep dive on how we can do that in Editor.
To start, let's skip straight to a working example so you can see what we are going to build - below is a table with three made up addresses. It is fully editable per a regular DataTable with Editor (local editing in this case - no backend database for this example). The part that is of interest in this blog post is if you create a new record or edit an existing one - the second field isn't a data field, rather it is an input that lets the user start to type an address, which will then be looked up using the excellent Geoapify API. A list of options are presented to the end user (you in this case!), refined as they continue to type, and lets them click on one to auto-complete the fields in the form.
| Name | House | Street | City | County | State | Postcode | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airi Satou | The Ivies | Glebe Close | London | London | NW11 9TU | United Kingdom | ||
| Hope Fuentes | 392 | Maple Street | Los Angeles | California | 90017 | United States | ||
| Serge Baldwin | 28 | Chemin Du Lavarin Sud | Caen | Basse-Normandie | 14000 | France |
Historic blog posts
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