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• kthorngren Posts: 21,327Questions: 26Answers: 4,949

  May 2023

  There is nothing built into Datatables for this. You can add the appropriate HTML above the table tag in you document. If you want the title integrated with the Datatables elements you can use the technique in this example.

  Kevin
• erwin007 Posts: 3Questions: 1Answers: 0

  May 2023

  Hi Kevin, this is already a great help but when I actually want to print the table (=save as pdf) that title isn't there.
  This is my code:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  <script>
      $(document).ready( function () {
          $('#myTable').dataTable({
              "ordering": false
          })
  
      $('#myTable2').dataTable({
          "ordering": false,
          dom: 'Bf<"toolbar">tip',
          "buttons": ['print']
  
          });
  
      $('div.toolbar').html('<b>This should work!</b>');  
  
  
      });
  </script>
  
• kthorngren Posts: 21,327Questions: 26Answers: 4,949

  May 2023

  See this example which shows adding a title to the export.

  Kevin
• erwin007 Posts: 3Questions: 1Answers: 0

  May 2023

  Kevin, you are my hero for today!!
  Thank you so much!
• allan Posts: 63,498Questions: 1Answers: 10,470 Site admin

  May 2023

  The other option, is to use the caption tag for tables. It has the advantage of being the semantic tag for exactly the method you describe, so screen readers, etc will handle it correctly (or at least should!).

  Here is a little example of that.

  Allan