Jquery DataTables

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When I search for issues with DataTables, I often pull up answers that reference Jquery DataTables. Sometimes this information is helpful, and sometimes it seems like a different product entirely. I've actually searched to see if the two are related, but the keywords "jquery" and "DataTables" pulls up an unlimited amount of unhelpful information.

So did sprymedia develop Jquery DataTables back in the day, and it just grew into DataTables, or was this two separate projects that just have an unfortunate amount of similarities? Or a fork somewhere down the line?

Just wondering.

Thanks,

allan

The name of this project has always been "DataTables". Some have called it "jQuery DataTables" to indicate that it was positioned as a plug-in for jQuery and distinguish it from other libraries. It still uses jQuery as a utility library (you don't need to write any jQuery code).

"DataTables" is a fairly generic term. Way back in the day, YUI had a DataTable component, and .NET also has a server-side DataTable class. I've seen lots of people referring to a table of data, as a "data table" as well, which will get mashed into a search.

SpryMedia is my company that I started out doing some consultancy work with, while developing DataTables. Now DataTables development (and support!) is my full time job and has been for many years.

Allan

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Yeah, all the generic terminology is really unfortunate. I'm late to AI, but I've been wondering if it handles all the generic terminology any better than a search engine.

Microsoft is REALLY bad about this, too, naming its core programming product after a major top level domain. They also have a whole bunch of different products that use similar terminology between them.

Thanks,

kthorngren

I use the site's search engine and take a quick look. If I don't find what I'm looking for then I'll use google search like this:

site:datatables.net <search phrase>

Generally this will yield better results than the site's search. Chances are that the answer your are looking for is on this site. However you might find some answers on Stack Overflow that are not here or not easily found here.

I don't trust AI to provide anything useful or accurate yet Some of the AI generated Datatables code I've seen posted here isn't close to correct. But it might be getting better just double check the results. I may be too old to learn this new AI stuff.

HTH,
Kevin