Step by step guide?

steveg

Does anyone know of a simple guide to making this work with MVC 5 applications? This is my first crack at using jquery and I can't make it work on an EF scaffolded view. tried to use this thread [ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28442960/asp-net-mvc5-and-datatables-for-a-beginner-what-goes-where ] but no use other than to confirm that 'adding three lines of code' doesn't do it.

I must be being dumb but I can't make it work!
Many thanks

allan

I'm not aware of one, but there probably is if you Google for it.

The key with DataTables is to:

1. Have an HTML table
2. Include jQuery and DataTables
3. Call $().DataTable()

The fact that you are using MCV5 is largely irrelevant since its a client-side library.

See also the installation guide.

Allan

steveg

Thanks very much for getting back to me so quickly. Frustratingly, I've managed to get things to work in one solution but not another. I always get the error:

Unhandled exception at line 4305, column 9 in http://localhost:35837/BusStops/Index

0x800a01b6 - JavaScript runtime error: Object doesn't support property or method 'DataTable'

when it reaches the line:

$('#stoptbl').DataTable();

Any idea what I've missed? The html table is correct I think and I have jquery and Datatables added in the _layout.

Thanks again.
Steve

allan

Without being able to see the page I really can't debug it. My best guess is that you are loading jQuery multiple times.

Allan

steveg

Quite an impressive guess! Spot on. Working a treat now and amazing bit of code.

Many thanks
Steve