buttons plugin intermittently just does not appear
buttons plugin intermittently just does not appear
I have an issue, with the buttons plugin sometimes not rendering, and there are no javascript errors or warnings. I am create datatables with options like this:
dom: 'lfrtipB',
buttons : ['colvis', 'copyHtml5', 'csvHtml5', 'excelHtml5'],
colReorder : true,
data: ...,
columns: ...
Sometimes the buttons appear, and sometimes they do not. If I reload the page, they appear. Here is the contents of my downloaded .zip for datatables:
Buttons-1.2.4/
ColReorder-1.3.2/
DataTables-1.10.13/
JSZip-2.5.0/
I am loading datatables like this
this.table = $(this.tableElement).DataTable(opts);
This is a dynamic single page app, made with aurelia, and sometimes I need to re-draw a table in a custom element, which I am doing some cleanup like this:
if(this.table) {
this.table.destroy();
$(this.tableElement).empty();
}
^^ does the above also cleanup the buttons plugin?
Is there a way to get the buttons plugin to be more verbose if it fails to load? Any other suggestions for solving this? I am kind of stuck here.
Answers
I was able to resolve the behavior by doing this instead of using the buttons options property: