Javascript example not working for me

CosmoLint · September 2

Hi, completely new to Datatables so I expect this is just something stupid but is stopping from learning Datatables.

Here is my html page which is my attempt to stitch the pieces in the example together.

I get no errors, no table, nothing. Thanks for any assistance.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
                             
 
   
    
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/2.1.5/js/dataTables.js"></script>
 
   
 
</head>
<body>
<H1 style="font-size: 16; "font-family:helvetica,sans-serif","color:rgb(0,0,0)",>Review</H1>
 
<script type=" text/javascript ">
var dataSet = [
    ['Tiger Nixon', 'System Architect', 'Edinburgh', '5421', '2011/04/25', '$320,800'],
    ['Garrett Winters', 'Accountant', 'Tokyo', '8422', '2011/07/25', '$170,750'],
    ['Ashton Cox', 'Junior Technical Author', 'San Francisco', '1562', '2009/01/12', '$86,000'],
    ['Cedric Kelly', 'Senior Javascript Developer', 'Edinburgh', '6224', '2012/03/29', '$433,060'],
   ['Airi Satou', 'Accountant', 'Tokyo', '5407', '2008/11/28', '$162,700'],
    ['Brielle Williamson', 'Integration Specialist', 'New York', '4804', '2012/12/02', '$372,000'],
    ['Herrod Chandler', 'Sales Assistant', 'San Francisco', '9608', '2012/08/06', '$137,500'],
    ['Rhona Davidson', 'Integration Specialist', 'Tokyo', '6200', '2010/10/14', '$327,900'],
    ['Colleen Hurst', 'Javascript Developer', 'San Francisco', '2360', '2009/09/15', '$205,500'],
    ['Sonya Frost', 'Software Engineer', 'Edinburgh', '1667', '2008/12/13', '$103,600'],
    ['Jena Gaines', 'Office Manager', 'London', '3814', '2008/12/19', '$90,560'],
    ['Quinn Flynn', 'Support Lead', 'Edinburgh', '9497', '2013/03/03', '$342,000'],
    ['Charde Marshall', 'Regional Director', 'San Francisco', '6741', '2008/10/16', '$470,600'],
    ['Haley Kennedy', 'Senior Marketing Designer', 'London', '3597', '2012/12/18', '$313,500'],
    ['Tatyana Fitzpatrick', 'Regional Director', 'London', '1965', '2010/03/17', '$385,750'],
    ['Michael Silva', 'Marketing Designer', 'London', '1581', '2012/11/27', '$198,500'],
    ['Paul Byrd', 'Chief Financial Officer (CFO)', 'New York', '3059', '2010/06/09', '$725,000'],
    ['Gloria Little', 'Systems Administrator', 'New York', '1721', '2009/04/10', '$237,500'],
    ['Bradley Greer', 'Software Engineer', 'London', '2558', '2012/10/13', '$132,000'],
    ['Dai Rios', 'Personnel Lead', 'Edinburgh', '2290', '2012/09/26', '$217,500'],
    ['Jenette Caldwell', 'Development Lead', 'New York', '1937', '2011/09/03', '$345,000'],
    ['Yuri Berry', 'Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)', 'New York', '6154', '2009/06/25', '$675,000'],
    ['Caesar Vance', 'Pre-Sales Support', 'New York', '8330', '2011/12/12', '$106,450'],
    ['Doris Wilder', 'Sales Assistant', 'Sydney', '3023', '2010/09/20', '$85,600'],
    ['Angelica Ramos', 'Chief Executive Officer (CEO)', 'London', '5797', '2009/10/09', '$1,200,000'],
    ['Gavin Joyce', 'Developer', 'Edinburgh', '8822', '2010/12/22', '$92,575'],
    ['Jennifer Chang', 'Regional Director', 'Singapore', '9239', '2010/11/14', '$357,650'],
    ['Brenden Wagner', 'Software Engineer', 'San Francisco', '1314', '2011/06/07', '$206,850'],
    ['Fiona Green', 'Chief Operating Officer (COO)', 'San Francisco', '2947', '2010/03/11', '$850,000'],
    ['Shou Itou', 'Regional Marketing', 'Tokyo', '8899', '2011/08/14', '$163,000'],
    ['Michelle House', 'Integration Specialist', 'Sydney', '2769', '2011/06/02', '$95,400'],
    ['Suki Burks', 'Developer', 'London', '6832', '2009/10/22', '$114,500'],
    ['Prescott Bartlett', 'Technical Author', 'London', '3606', '2011/05/07', '$145,000'],
    ['Gavin Cortez', 'Team Leader', 'San Francisco', '2860', '2008/10/26', '$235,500'],
    ['Martena Mccray', 'Post-Sales support', 'Edinburgh', '8240', '2011/03/09', '$324,050'],
    ['Unity Butler', 'Marketing Designer', 'San Francisco', '5384', '2009/12/09', '$85,675'],
];
new DataTable('#Review', {
    columns: [
        { title: 'Name' },
        { title: 'Position' },
        { title: 'Office' },
        { title: 'Extn.' },
        { title: 'Start date' },
        { title: 'Salary' }
    ],
    data: dataSet
});
 
</script>
 
<table id="Review" class="display" width="100%"></table>
 
 
 
 
 
</body>
</html>

Edited by Kevin: Syntax highlighting. Details on how to highlight code using markdown can be found in this guide

allan · September 2

You need to wait for the DOM to be ready - at the moment the Javascript is executing before the document has been fully loaded:

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
  new DataTable("#Review", {
    columns: [
      { title: "Name" },
      { title: "Position" },
      { title: "Office" },
      { title: "Extn." },
      { title: "Start date" },
      { title: "Salary" },
    ],
    data: dataSet,
  });
});

Allan

kthorngren · September 2

This line has too many " causing an error on the page:

<H1 style="font-size: 16; "font-family:helvetica,sans-serif","color:rgb(0,0,0)",>Review</H1>

Move the tab above the script section. The script will run first trying to initialize Datatables before the table is added to the document. You may want to place the Datatables init code in $( document ).ready() so it doesn't execute until the page is ready.

You also should add dataTables.css to get a properly style Datatable.

I copied your code in this test case and made these updates.
https://live.datatables.net/gutitezi/1/edit

Kevin

CosmoLint · September 4

Thanks Kevin, I now have it working.

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