Multiple tables

Often you might wish to initialise multiple tables with a single statement. This is trivially done by using a jQuery selector which will pick up multiple tables.

The tables are independent for user control (i.e. user controlled paging on one table does not effect the others), but they do share the initialisation parameters given (for example if you specific the Spanish language file, all tables will be shown in Spanish). Additionally, the API can be used to manipulate both together, or independently.

The example below shows two tables initialised with a single line of code, through the use of the table.display selector (i.e. select all elements which have the class of table.display (which is suitable in this example, you might wish to use a different selector).

Name	Position	Office	Age	Salary
Tiger Nixon	System Architect	Edinburgh	61	$320,800
Cedric Kelly	Senior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	22	$433,060
Sonya Frost	Software Engineer	Edinburgh	23	$103,600
Quinn Flynn	Support Lead	Edinburgh	22	$342,000
Dai Rios	Personnel Lead	Edinburgh	35	$217,500
Gavin Joyce	Developer	Edinburgh	42	$92,575
Martena Mccray	Post-Sales support	Edinburgh	46	$324,050
Jennifer Acosta	Junior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	43	$75,650
Shad Decker	Regional Director	Edinburgh	51	$183,000
Name	Position	Office	Age	Salary

Name	Position	Office	Age	Salary
Jena Gaines	Office Manager	London	30	$90,560
Haley Kennedy	Senior Marketing Designer	London	43	$313,500
Tatyana Fitzpatrick	Regional Director	London	19	$385,750
Michael Silva	Marketing Designer	London	66	$198,500
Bradley Greer	Software Engineer	London	41	$132,000
Angelica Ramos	Chief Executive Officer (CEO)	London	47	$1,200,000
Suki Burks	Developer	London	53	$114,500
Prescott Bartlett	Technical Author	London	27	$145,000
Timothy Mooney	Office Manager	London	37	$136,200
Bruno Nash	Software Engineer	London	38	$163,500
Hermione Butler	Regional Director	London	47	$356,250
Lael Greer	Systems Administrator	London	21	$103,500
Name	Position	Office	Age	Salary

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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

$('table.display').DataTable();

new DataTable('table.display');

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:

The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:

This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:

div.dt-container {
		margin-bottom: 3em;
	}

The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:

This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.

The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.

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