DataTables around the web

There are some fantastic articles which go into depth about various aspects of DataTables available on the web. This is a collection of some of those that are available. You can also use the RSS feeds below to keep up-to-date with happens in the world of DataTables

If you have written an article or blog post about DataTables, and would like to see it included here, please let me know!

2024

ITables v2

20th Mar 2024

Congratulations to Mac Wouts on the release of his ITables 2.0 software. It is an MIT licenses python package that renders Python DataFrames using DataTables.

2022

.NET6 server-side processing

28th Jul 2022

David has updated his useful server-side processing library for .NET to support .NET6.

Row Indexes vs. Display Positions

7th Jan 2022

An excellent article from northCoder explaining the difference between a row index and its display index, including how to interact with them via the API.

2021

.NET helpers

23rd Jul 2021

Mark Christopher Cacal has created a useful library for .NET Core which lets a DataTable and Editor be defined in the server-side code, generating the JS for you.

CodeIgniter 4 server-side processing

16th Feb 2021

A new server-side processing library for CodeIgniter 4 from Samson Luvanda. It carries an MIT license and is easy to setup and configure.

Retriving data with joins in .NET 5

15th Jan 2021

A really interesting and detailed article from Jordan Nash showing how to use joined data in .NET 5 with Entity Framework and then displaying it in DataTables.

2020

Column resizing plug-in

24th Nov 2020

Daniel Hobi has created a new column resizing plug-in for DataTables (source is available) which works very smoothly.

Excel export styling examples

21st May 2020

Button's Excel export does over styling options, but it isn't particularly trivial to use. Thankfully Paul Jones has put together an excellent resource to help with this though! It shows the code to use for a set of Excel export examples.

Card View

19th Feb 2020

Michael has been at it again (creating useful blog posts about DataTables!). This time discussing a technique originally suggested in the forum for using DataTables with a card view.

Search and order by `input` or `select` elements

19th Feb 2020

Another really useful article by Michael Ryvkin - this time describing how you can use a clever little renderer to search and order live DOM elements.

Server-side processing with CodeIgniter

14th Jan 2020

Samson Luvanda has created and documented a library to enable server-side processing in a CI environment.

2019

SSP with .NET Core - complex filtering

13th Aug 2019

An update to Abdul Rahman's .NET Core library for DataTables server-side processing has added support for complex filtering and sorting.

CodeIgniter with server-side processing

25th Jul 2019

Iftikhar has written a detailed tutorial on how to use DataTables' server-side processing with CodeIgniter.

MongoDB server-side processing

13th Jun 2019

[Spanish] David Leon as written an article, and published the corresponding software, on how to use DataTables server-side processing with MongoDB in PHP.

SSP with .NET Core

10th Jun 2019

Abdul Rahman has created a new .NET Core library for server-side processing with DataTables - MIT licensed.

React component

7th May 2019

Ryan Trann has been working on a React component that encapsulates DataTables and it is available here.

PHP Composer package for DataTables

26th Feb 2019

Web Inventions have published a PHP package (installable via Composer, PSR-7 support) which supports server-side processing.

Drop down column filter

8th Feb 2019

Yevgen Gorbunkov has written a very nice plug-in for DataTables which shows a drop down filtering from the header allowing union searches to be performed. The source is available on GitHub.

Server-side processing on ASP.NET Core

3rd Feb 2019

Abdul Rahman has created a Nuget package that implements server-side processing for DataTables on .NET Core. Source is also available in GitHub!

2018

Django and Editor

17th Dec 2018

David Mckim has created and shared a sample Django project that supports editing in DataTables via Editor.

Populating a DataTable with MsSql.RestApi

6th Nov 2018

Jovan Popovic has published a detailed article about how MsSql.RestApi can be used in the .NET world to quickly create a data feed that DataTables can display.

EF .NET Core with server-side processing

15th Oct 2018

An example project showing how Entity Framework in .NET Core can be used with server-side processing.

Laratables

13th Sep 2018

Ajax support of DataTables' server-side processing in Laravel.

Displaying OpenWeatherMap API data

6th Aug 2018

Yogi has written a detailed post showing how to extract weather data from the OpenWeatherMap API and then display it in DataTables.

Loading indicator

19th Jul 2018

Michael Ryvkin has written up a introductory tutorial on how you can use the features built into DataTables to display a loading icon when the table is processing data.

URL updating on table navigation

16th Jul 2018

Tomas Atria has created a script (available under the GPv2 license) which will update the browser's URL allowing back / forward button navigation through the table. This isn't a tutorial, the code is in the 'tickers.js' file, but it shows the code in use.

Using DataTables in FileMaker

10th Jul 2018

In an interesting post for FileMaker Today, Keefer Rogers explores how to use DataTables (and Javascript in general) in FileMaker.

DataTables with NodeJS, Express and MongoDB

15th May 2018

An interesting series of articles from Deepika Gunda showing how to use DataTables in server-side processing mode with NodeJS and a MongoDB database.

Django REST framework for DataTables

17th Apr 2018

A new Django REST framework from David Jean Louis for DataTables with comprehensive documentation.

Bringing DataTables to React-Redux

12th Mar 2018

Kenny Bergquist discusses how he used DataTables' server-side processing with React and Redux for state information.

Partial colspan support

4th Mar 2018

Michael Ryvkin has written an article about how to get partial colspan support working in a tbody element in DataTables (be aware of the limitations though!).

Expand all child rows

4th Mar 2018

Another article by the prolific Michael Ryvkin, this time about how to show all child rows in a DataTable with a single click.

2017

Laravel Editor examples

19th Dec 2017

A follow up on the previous item - Arjay Angeles has published a an example of how to use his libraries with Editor and a Laravel backend.

Laravel and Editor

16th Dec 2017

Arjay Angeles has created a Laravel plug-in that implements full CRUD with Editor! It uses Laravel's Eloquent for db access.

User column selection

9th Dec 2017

Michael Ryvkin has an interesting article demonstrating how Select's column selector can be used. Note that it can also be used to select rows and / or cells.

Improved site search

9th Dec 2017

The DataTables site search now provides a better breakdown of what categories a search result is from, and also a time ordering option for forum results. Feedback always welcome

Editor 1.7

9th Dec 2017

I'm delighted to announce the release of Editor 1.7.0. The major new feature is Node.JS support on the server-side, with libraries which feature match the PHP and .NET libraries.

How to use DataTables in Angular

7th Nov 2017

An interesting article from Mahipal Reddy which discusses how DataTables can be used in Angular with `ng-repeat`.

Selected rows with KeyTable

6th Nov 2017

Although KeyTable is designed for cell based navigation, this article by Michael Ryvkin shows how with clever use of events, it can also be used to navigate rows in a table.

Data Visualization With DataTables and Highcharts.js

2nd Nov 2017

A great article by George Martsoukos on integrating DataTables with the excellent HighCharts library, where the charts update based on the search and order of the table.

Variable Columns in DataTables

21st Sep 2017

This is an interesting post from PDERAS which describes how they handled the use cast of not knowing the number of columns a DataTables requires until the user interacts with the page.

Python, Flask, Mongo and server-side processing

15th Sep 2017

Paul Olsen has written and published a Python script for Flash and MongoDB which implements server-side processing for DataTables.

An introduction to tables

5th Sep 2017

A useful article from Dominic Myers if you are starting out with tables and also want to see the benefits of using DataTables.

Design better data tables

4th Sep 2017

An interesting article from Andrew Coyle which explores the ways in which enhanced tables can help get users get useful data from a table.

Custom UI controls and DataTables

4th Sep 2017

A detailed tutorial from Michael Ryvkin on the topic of using custom UI controls with a a DataTable. It explores the options available using a rating plug-in.

ASP.NET Core and EF Core server-side parser

16th Aug 2017

Garvin Casimir has updated his parser with support for the latest .NET technologies, making it super easy to get information about requests from DataTables in server-side processing mode.

Load more with server-side processing

2nd Aug 2017

Another article from Michael Ryvkin - this time discussing the subject of having a button which will load more data when using server-side processing.

Column resizing extension

20th Jul 2017

Steven Masala has created and published a column resizing extension for DataTables which works really nicely. This is a popular feature request, so I'm sure feedback will be welcome.

Typeahead search

4th Jul 2017

Another great article from Michael Ryvkin - this time discussing how to create a typeahead / autocomplete search input for DataTables.

Screencast: Ruby on Rails with DataTables

30th May 2017

The Drifting Ruby blog this week features a screencast on how to create a server-side processing DataTable with Ruby on Rails

Submitting data from a form in a DataTable

24th May 2017

Michael Ryvkin discusses a relatively common question about DataTables in this article: How to submit data from a form that is embedded in the table, with paging enabled.

Material Design for Bootstrap

16th Feb 2017

Dominic Myers has been writing a styling integration for DataTables and Material Design for Bootstrap. The results are some seriously nice looking tables.

Integrating React and DataTables

4th Jan 2017

Boris Kozorovitzky has written a detailed post showing how DataTables can be used inside React.

2016

Spring Boot + JQuery + DataTables

24th Nov 2016

Gustavo Ponce has a detailed article describing how to use Spring and DataTables together, going all the way from starting a new project right through to the finished table.

Angular 2, WebWorkers and DataTables

21st Nov 2016

Harris Brakmic is running a series of articles as an introduction to Angular 2, and here he uses DataTables with WebWorkers, inside an Angular 2 app to display information from a remote OData resource.

Responsive and Select

9th Nov 2016

Michael Ryvkin has a well written post the details how Select and Responsive can be used seamlessly together.

DataTables server-side processing and Rails

29th Sep 2016

Jakhongir Alimov has published a well documented Rails gem for DataTables' server-side processing mode, making it super easy to use massive data sets with Rails.

Fresh DataTables from Creative Tim

1st Aug 2016

The fine folks at Creative Tim have been working on a suite of amazing themes for DataTables, and have published a tutorial explaining how to use them. The demo page is interactive - make sure you try changing the colour scheme!

Integrating DataTables with Splunk

14th Jul 2016

Ian Gillespie of Hurricane Labs is writing a 4 part series showing how to integrate DataTables with Splunk. Detailed and a great presentation with a mix of blog and screencasts.

CodeIgniter interface for DataTables

8th Jun 2016

sajjadsaleem has released a useful CodeIgniter interface model for DataTables.

jQuery 3.0.0-rc1

24th May 2016

The jQuery team have just published a release candidate of v3. As a jQuery plug-in, this is big news for DataTables. DataTables will continue to support v1, 2 and now also 3 of jQuery.

mark.js

19th May 2016

mark.js is an awesome text highlighter from Julian Motz and features built in support for DataTables global and column filtering. A very slick way of drawing attention to the user's search terms in the result set.

Alphabet search improvements

26th Apr 2016

Michael Ryvkin has been at work on the alphabet search plug-in for DataTables, improving its capabilities with number input and internationalisation options!

Mendix DataTables widget

9th Apr 2016

Marcel Groeneweg of Itvisors has created a widget for DataTables in the Mendix app store. Be sure to check out the impressive examples.

Column API extensions - filtering and meta data

8th Apr 2016

Kevin Jhangiani has written and published a suite of extensions for the DataTables API that adds extra data selection options for columns and allows meta data to be stored (including state saving that data).

Animated sorting icons

4th Apr 2016

A unique idea from Tamino Martinius - sorting icons that are beautifully animated as the table sorting changes.

Editor in CodeIgniter

4th Mar 2016

Robert Christiaanse has written a detailed post showing how the Editor PHP libraries can be used inside CodeIgniter to get the full benefit of the excellent CI framework while also using Editor.

JED - Java libraries for Editor!

1st Mar 2016

Tactical Enterprises Ltd have produced and made available (GPLv2) Java Enterprise Environment libraries that fully support Editor 1.5 - including its multi-row editing.

Display of a table in an initially hidden element

18th Feb 2016

Michael Ryvkin at Gyrocode investigates the use of DataTables inside an initially hidden element, and discusses how the API can be used to correctly display the DataTable.

OData v4 and server-side processing

3rd Feb 2016

A new plug-in from Michele Bersini which provides server-side processing support for DataTables where an OData v4 data source is available.

2015

URL encoded DataTables configuration

3rd Nov 2015

Justin Hyland has created a new `keepConditions` extension for DataTables that makes it possible to deep link into a table via the URL.

SalesForce Apex and server-side processing

28th Oct 2015

Dominic Myers has a detailed post examining how Apex can be used with DataTables' server-side processing.

Server-side processing for XS Engine (SAP HANA)

19th Oct 2015

AndrÃ© Carrasco has published a XS Engine library which provides server-side processing for DataTables on the SAP HANA platform.

DataTables and CartoDB

9th Oct 2015

Chris Henrick has a detailed post showing how DataTables can be interfaced with CartoDB - an excellent platform for mapping geospatial data.

Laravel 5.1 and DataTables

9th Oct 2015

A set by set guide on how to use DataTables in Laravel 5.1 from Arjay Angeles. His yajra DataTables package for Laravel is very impressive and well documented.

Laravel library for Editor

5th Oct 2015

NextGen Universe, Inc have released native Laravel libraries for Editor 1.5 (including Editor's multi-row editing features).

SSP with NodeDB and MongoDB

18th Sep 2015

Vinicius Teixeira has just published a new npm module which makes it easy to work with server-side processing on Node.JS with a MongoDB database.

Click and drag row selection

26th Aug 2015

Adrien Cuisinier has been working on an extension for DataTables that allows click and drag to select items in the table, fully integrating with Select.

Server-side with ASP.NET MVC 5

19th Aug 2015

Cynx has an excellent article about how to use DataTables' server-side processing mode with ASP.NET MVC 5 and Entity Framework.

DataTables introduction video

31st Jul 2015

Venkat from PRAGIM Technologies has created a nice introduction video to DataTables, the start of a series of videos.

C# Selenium wrapper

9th Jun 2015

Testing is always important in software and this C# wrapper for DataTables to help execute Selenium tests from Ashley Fox makes it nice and easy in .NET.

Google Data table style recommendations

18th May 2015

The Google Material design specification team have recently added information on how their Data tables can be styled. An interesting read on how to present usable tabular information.

Server-side processing with Laravel

7th May 2015

Arjay Angeles has published a new Laravel package that provides an easy to use interface for DataTables server-side processing with support for Eloquent ORM, Fluent Query Builder and Collection data sources.

Liferay Portal Portlet

24th Apr 2015

A Portlet for Liferay Portal that can seamlessly switch between client-side and server-side processing from Fabian Larroca.

Laravel Eloquent server-side processing

13th Apr 2015

LiveControl have been working on a Laravel Eloquent server-side processing module for DataTables and have just published it as open source (MIT)!

R Studio - data visualisation

8th Apr 2015

R Studio provides an HTMLwidgets package that makes use of DataTables. This video tutorial shows how to create data visualisations quickly and easily in R.

DataTables in IBM XPages

24th Mar 2015

Oliver Busse discusses how DataTables can easily be used in XPages.

DT: An R interface to the DataTables library

11th Mar 2015

DT is an R package that provides an interface to DataTables presenting a large range of options and Shiny integration.

Sending data to the server in Ajax requests

27th Feb 2015

Tony Mucci has written a nice tutorial showing how to use DataTables' ajax.data option, as a function, to send data to the server on each Ajax request.

Using DataTables as a value picker

26th Jan 2015

An interesting use case from Thomas Beutel showing how DataTables can be used to simplify a complex value selection process in a lightbox and return the selected value to the caller.

CodeIgniter library for DataTables

16th Jan 2015

Paul Zepernick has created a CodeIgniter library for DataTables that will handle server-side processing and easy table creation for DataTables in CI.

Introduction to Responsive

16th Jan 2015

Jonathan Calazan has written a nice introduction to the Responsive extension for DataTables, showing specifically how it can be used in a Django app.

2014

Column resizing plug-in

18th Dec 2014

David of Silvacom Ltd has created a column resizing plug-in for DataTables which allows simple drag and drop resizing of columns.

ListView API

24th Nov 2014

Andrew Fawcett describes how DataTables can be used with the new ListView API from SalesForce.

DataTables in VisualForce, part 1

24th Nov 2014

SalesForce can contain a lot of useful data, and using the VisualForce APIs, DataTables can display this data very neatly. Daniel Hoechst describes how.

DataTables in VisualForce, part 2

24th Nov 2014

Continuing his series, Daniel describes how to use Javascript Remote Objects with DataTables to display child row data in a DataTable.

Category filer

10th Nov 2014

Gowri Sankar has an interesting article showing how a plug-in filter can be used to create a cumulative checkbox filter quickly and easily.

Handlebars and Tabletop with DataTables

15th Oct 2014

A template from The Gazette and KCRG that uses Handlebars for tempting, Tabletop for pulling data from a Google spreadsheet and DataTables for display and interaction.

Symfony2 bundle update

13th Oct 2014

stwe has updated the SgDatatablesBundle to v0.5.2. This bundle makes it easy to integrate DataTables into a Symfony2 application.

DataTables and Node file browser

1st Oct 2014

Sumit Chawla details how you can use Node.JS to display a file browser, with the results shown in DataTables.

DataTables Python package

1st Oct 2014

fantastic package of DataTables and its Extensions making DataTables super easy to include in a Python environment.

BootBundle with DataTables

25th Jul 2014

BootBundle is a package of templates, snippets and components that extend the core Bootstrap library. And it includes DataTables!

Database state saving with C#

12th Jul 2014

Arindam Jha has written an interesting article on using database state saving. The tutorial also covers jQuery Templates, all with ASP.NET C# 4.5, Entity Framework

DataTables shortlisted for NIA

17th Jun 2014

Google Fusion Tables + DataTables

16th Jun 2014

Breyten Ernsting has created a server-side processing class (PHP) for using Google Fusion Tables with DataTables, paving the way to some interesting results.

World Cup predictions

16th Jun 2014

The team at FiveThirtyEight have used DataTables to create a really nice visualisation of probabilities for success of the various teams at the 2014 World Cup.

DT 1.10.0 available as a NuGet

28th May 2014

MW Ãgil of Sistemas Inteligentes has packaged DataTables 1.10.0 in a NuGet for easy use in Microsoft development tools.

Dandelion v0.10.0

26th May 2014

Dandelion is a web framework for JVM environments and provides tight integration with DataTables. The project has recently updated to v0.10.

JED updates for Editor 1.3 and DT 1.10

20th May 2014

Tactical Enterprises have been hard at work updating their Java Enterprise Environment solution for DataTables and Editor to fully support the latest versions.

Reactive DataTables for MeteorJS

18th Apr 2014

Austin Rivas has been hard at work creating an awesome library for interfacing DataTables with MeteorJS, utilising server-side processing for huge data sets and MeteorJS's reactivity.

DataTables 1.10 and ASP.NET MVC 5

27th Mar 2014

Anderson Matos has created a set of ASP.NET MVC 5 classes that operate with DataTables 1.10's updated server-side processing module.

Server-side processing in Java

24th Mar 2014

Andreas Knees has created a Java based server-side processing script for DataTables with object based data. Also included is a Swing client.

Server-side processing, PHP PDO style

15th Mar 2014

Tony Brandao has created a PHP server-side processing script for DataTables, that harnesses the PHP PDO classes, allowing his script to work with many different database types.

Custom search for DataTables 1.10

5th Mar 2014

Timothy Ruhle has created a plug-in for DataTables 1.10 which provides extensive search options, such as simple string input to range filtering, for DataTables 1.10.

Using OData as a data source

3rd Mar 2014

Jovan & Vida Popovic have created an Ajax adapter for DataTables, allowing it to consume data from an OData service (v2, 3 and 4 supported). Both client-side and server-side processing modes are supported.

Symfony2 and DataTables

13th Feb 2014

stwe has created a bundle for Symfony2 applications, compatible with Doctrine ORM, which provides data for DataTables in client-side and server-side processing modes.

Autoconfig via BitConfig

20th Jan 2014

The folks at BitConfig are developing a tool which can be used to build configurations for popular jQuery plug-ins, and DataTables is among those which can be configured.

Shiny (R) with DataTables built-in

16th Jan 2014

The Shiny web app framework for R has support for DataTables built in to the core. With Shiny is it super simple to show analysis data as an interactive DataTables grid.

2013

couchtable - Node.JS, CouchDB and DataTables

15th Dec 2013

NPM module from Ben Slayton to query CouchDB and displaying the results with DataTables.

Server-side processing and Grails

13th Dec 2013

Ignacio Ocampo has created Grails plug-in that makes using DataTables' server-side processing mode with Grails very easy.

DataTables in Angular

8th Nov 2013

Ferenc Kun has an interesting post about his project which integrates DataTables with Angular JS.

Symfony2 + Doctrine2 server-side processing

2nd Nov 2013

brown298 has created a Symfony2 package for DataTables server-side processing to make integration a breeze. Feedback is welcome on the package.

SharePoint REST

18th Oct 2013

Mark Rackley has an interesting article showing how easily DataTables can consume data from the SharePoint 2013 REST API with its ability to use almost any JSON data source.

C# serialization

23rd Sep 2013

A C# serialisation package for DataTables' server-side processing from Kelly Vernon, making use of DataTables SSP in C# much easier!

Java backend for Editor

25th Aug 2013

Tactical Enterprises have created a Java based backend for DataTables Editor, making editable DataTables in a Java environment very fast and very easy!

ASP.NET MVC helpers

23rd Jul 2013

Harry McIntyre has created a package of helpers for ASP.NET MVC and DataTables including server-side processing and individual column filtering.

Responsive DataTables

6th Jul 2013

This script from Comanche adds responsive behaviour to DataTables - allowing phone and tablet devices to show full size beautiful tables, making maximum use of the screen available at all sizes.

C# and server-side processing

29th May 2013

Garvin Casimir has released an updated version of the popular C# server-side processing script, with focus on now using objects rather than arrays as the data source.

DataTables using Google Spreadsheets (illustrated)

23rd May 2013

Lisa Williams of Data For Radicals has an (absurdly!) illustrated guide showing how TableTop can be used to capture data from a Google Spreadsheet, to be shown in DataTables.

Multi-column sort priority display

16th May 2013

A plug-in for DataTables from Brian White that shows the priority order in which columns are sorted when doing a multi-column sort.

DataTables column filter plug-in

9th Apr 2013

Daniel Reznick has created "Yet Another DataTables Column Filter" (yadcf), adding easy column filtering options to a DataTable. There is a live example available.

CakePHP server-side processing

30th Mar 2013

Chris Nizzardini has created a CakePHP component which makes server-side processing integration for DataTables in CakePHP a breeze.

Debug bookmarklet on HTTPS

6th Mar 2013

DataTables.net how has a wildcard SSL certificate for the domain, so you can use the DataTables debug bookmarklet on secure sites now as well as plain HTTP.

Zurb Foundation and DataTables

3rd Mar 2013

Integration files for seamlessly styling your Zurb Foundation styled site with DataTables. Simply include two files and use DataTables as normal!

Perl and server-side processing

25th Feb 2013

Adam Hopkins has been continuing his great work on creating a Perl based server-side processing environment for DataTables, releasing here, a full featured module on CPAN.

Perl and DataTables

16th Feb 2013

Steve Jacobson has a detailed tutorial on how he created an editable table with DataTables and a Perl backend.

Server-side processing with Django

9th Feb 2013

ezTables from Axel Haustant makes server-side processing for DataTables support in a Django environment super easy. Just install the package and configure your view.

Server-side processing with Python + MongoDB

1st Feb 2013

Rob Sicurelli has developed a Python script that obtains its data from MongoDB in the Flask framework. He shares it with us here.

Using DataTables in Drupal 7

31st Jan 2013

Ivan Zugec has a great article showing how easily DataTables can be integrated into a Drupal 7 site.

DataTables server-side processing with Yesod

19th Jan 2013

Tero Laitinen has created a server-side processing script for the Haskell Yesod web framework with is open source and ready to use!

2012

Security advisory - DataTables 1.9.4- sever-side processing

27th Dec 2012

It has been brought to light that the demo server-side processing scripts in the DataTables package has a security vulnerability in them. Please update to scripts to address this issue.

DataTables on cdnjs

8th Dec 2012

DataTables is now available on cdnjs! Now you can take full advantage of the CloudFlare powered CDN to optimise loading of DataTables. DataTables is even used for the package finding table on the cdnjs homepage!

Notification of releases by e-mail

28th Nov 2012

DataTables has a releases RSS feed which is great for keeping up-to-date with the latest releases, and now using that feed and IFTTT you can be notified of new releases by e-mail.

DataTables in Grails

27th Nov 2012

Luis Vasquez shows us how easily DataTables can be used in a Grails project through the use of a Grails plug-in and a simple HTML table.

Server-side processing and CodeIgniter

13th Nov 2012

Blake Nouribekian has put to get an example of how to integrate DataTables' server-side processing with the CodeIgniter PHP framework.

Laravel bundle for server-side processing

7th Nov 2012

Bilal Gultekin has created a server-side processing bundle for the excellent Laravel PHP framework which will work with Eloquent ORM or Fluent Query Builder, making server-side processing with Laravel super easy.

jPaginator integration

29th Oct 2012

Ernani Azevedo has integrated RÃ©my Elazare's jPaginator with DataTables in a nice easy to use package. jPaginator replaces the standard DataTables pagination controls with a much more scalable and flexible control, which is fantastic for very large data

TableTabs

12th Oct 2012

TableTabs from Robert Brower will split a single HTML table into multiple tables, each of which are embedded into their own jQuery UI tabs, providing automatic categorisation for the content in your DataTable.

RavenDB and DataTables

10th Oct 2012

David Robbins has written a detailed tutorial on how DataTables' server-side processing mode can be used with RavenDB and all the benefits that go with it.

jQuery.floatThead - Fixed headers plug-in

9th Oct 2012

jQuery.floatThead is a jQuery plug-in from Misha Koryak which floats a table's header at the top of the table's viewport or the browser window, keeping it always visible. It has DataTables support out of the box!

Server-side processing with Node.js

8th Oct 2012

Jim Pravetz has created a Node.js module that fully implements server-side processing for DataTables. The implement ion uses MySQL but can easily be modified for other databases.

DataTables4j

27th Sep 2012

Thibault Duchateau has created DataTables4j - an OSS project that makes integration of DataTables with a Java / JEE application an absolute breeze. Well documented and with plenty of examples as well.

Bower and DataTables

15th Sep 2012

Bower is a Javascript package manager, and you can now install DataTables through it. Once Bower is installed all you need to do is type bower install datatables.

Editor 1.2.1 release

2nd Sep 2012

Editor 1.2.1 is now available, with a number of API refinements and bugs addressed. The PHP server implementation now has the ability to do self-referencing joins, and the client-side has a few new API methods and events.

Spring Data - REST and DataTables

26th Aug 2012

Greg Case of Solution Design Group has a very interesting post showing how DataTables can be integrated with Spring Data - REST, utilising DataTables ability to read data from virtually any JSON data source.

Kohana support (Database, ORM, REST) for DataTables

14th Aug 2012

Micheal Morgan presents an integration library for DataTables and Kohana data sources that can use Kohana ORM, Database Module (MySQL, PDO) or REST services. ORM-REST is even coming soon!

Editor 1.2 available!

11th Aug 2012

Editor 1.2 for DataTables is now available, bringing with it a wide range of improvements, primarily in the PHP implementation for Editor, which now has a much more flexible API and support for Join tables.

Server-side processing and Symfony 2

25th Jul 2012

Slauta Roman has written a server-side processing integration script that works with a Symfony 2 (Doctrine) backend system.

Checkbox selectable plug-in

25th Jul 2012

Basil Gren has developed a Selectable plug-in for DataTables which adds a checkbox column to a table with an API to get and set the selection properties of the table.

Server-side processing PHP PDO style

22nd Jul 2012

John Becker of Beckersoft, Inc has updated the default DataTables server-side processing script to make use of PHP's PDO, resulting in a much cleaner implementation.

Play! Framework 2.0 and server-side processing

6th Jul 2012

franz from Feadro.com shows how server-side processing for DataTables can be implemented in the Play! Framework (v2).

DataTables plug-ins on GitHub

1st Jun 2012

All DataTables plug-ins for sorting, filtering, type-detection etc are now available on GitHub. Forking and pull requests are very much encouraged!

DataTables Taglib

28th May 2012

Thib has created an open source JSP tab lib for DataTables. You can now quickly create Datatables in your Java/JEE based web application without even writing any Javascript code.

Editor

4th May 2012

Editor is a new plug-in for DataTables which provides a full editing toolset for your tables. With Editor and DataTables you have have a highly dynamic, custom configured, editable table running in minutes.

WebHost Magazine award

4th May 2012

DataTables receives an Editor's Choice Award from WebHost Magazine "for its versatility and ease of use in providing time saving tools while looking professional".

ListNav integration

21st Apr 2012

DukeAstar has written a plug-in for DataTables that integrates ListNav with DataTables for easy alphabet navigation.

Pivot.js and DataTables integration

20th Apr 2012

Pivot.js is a Javascript library that provides advanced manipulation of large data sets and can use DataTables for displaying the resulting summarised data. A fantastic data layer for DataTables.

DataTables 1.9.1 released

15th Apr 2012

Now that the dust has settled from the 1.9.0 release, its time for a few bugs to be addressed - DataTables 1.9.1 is now available. There are also a couple of new features which nicely round off the 1.9 series' abilities.

DataTables and Rails - screencast

12th Apr 2012

Ryan Bates from railscasts.com has a screencast (episode #340) showing how DataTables can be quickly and easily used in a Rails app for client-side processing, and also introduces server-side processing if you are working with large tables.

Row Drag and Drop in ASP.NET MVC

3rd Apr 2012

Continuing his excellent series of tutorials on integrating DataTables and AST.NET MVC Jovan Popovic shows how rows can be reordered using drag and drop.

Debugger Chrome extension

19th Mar 2012

Matt Clements has put together a Chrome extension that adds a button to your Chrome toolbar that will trigger the DataTables debugger. Debugging couldn't be easier!

Column filtering with ASP.NET MVC

14th Mar 2012

Jovan Popovic provides us with a range of fantastic plug-ins for DataTables and in this post he details how to use his column filter plug-in with ASP.NET MVC and server-side processing.

An introduction to DataTables

21st Feb 2012

Jovan Popovic has a detailed introduction to DataTables, describing its features, capabilities and showing how to configure it to your needs. Perfect if you are just starting out with DataTables.

DataTables and Knockout.JS

21st Feb 2012

If you are interested in using a Knockout.JS model as a data source for a DataTable, have a look at this example from Brandon Etchison (@BrandonEtchison) which will serve as a useful starting point.

Server-side processing with PetaPoco

19th Feb 2012

Todd Wood has an interesting article detailing how PetaPoco (micro-ORM for .NET and Mono) can be used with server-side processing to display very quickly with large databases in DataTables.

DataTables 1.9.0 on Microsoft CDN

7th Feb 2012

DataTables 1.9.0 is now available from the Microsoft Ajax CDN, so you can take full advantage of a great CDN with all the features of 1.9.0!

ASP.NET MVC3 with server-side processing

3rd Feb 2012

Bryan Dougherty, as part of a series of articles building a CRUD application, describes how to enhance a table using DataTables with server-side processing and an ASP.NET MVC3 backend.

DataTables 1.9.0 now available

1st Feb 2012

DataTables 1.9 is a significant upgrade for DataTables - the result of 4 months of development with lots of new features and improvements.

DataTables 1.9.0 in a Nuget

1st Feb 2012

NuGet gallery has DataTables 1.9.0 all packaged up and ready to use, making it super easy to use DataTables with Visual Studio.

Microsoft CDN

28th Jan 2012

DataTables is now available on the Microsoft Ajax CDN, allowing lightning fast delivery of DataTables on your site!

J2EE web app and DataTables integration

15th Jan 2012

Fred Lee has an interesting post for J2EE developers, showing how server-side processing for DataTables can be implemented in your J2EE application.

DataTables and Visualforce

14th Jan 2012

Mac Anderson introduces how DataTables can be used in Visualforce, he user interface framework for the Force.com platform.

Multi-column sorting with SSP and C#

7th Jan 2012

ActiveEngine have a post describing how to create a server-side processing script with C#/LINQ that will utilise the multi-column sorting features built into DataTables.

2011

DOM positioning tips and tricks

29th Dec 2011

James Riley has written an introduction to DataTables post in which he discusses how to position table elements anywhere you want on the page using DOM and DataTables API methods.

Using DataTables with Perl and Catalyst calendar

16th Dec 2011

Richard Wallman shows us how to integrate DataTables server-side processing with Perl and the Catalyst Advent Calendar to show, sort and filter easily through a large number of calendar events.

Jahia CMS and server-side processing

14th Dec 2011

Juan Pablo Albuja describes how Jahia Actions can be integrated with DataTables' server-side processing.

ThemeForest themes with DataTables

9th Dec 2011

If you are looking for a quick way of creating stylish looking tables, integrated with the rest of your site, then there are a number of themes available on ThemeForest with DataTables support. They are listed here.

Applying date sorting plug-ins

5th Dec 2011

James Rowe has a nice introduction article showing how the sorting plug-ins available can quickly and easily be applied to your DataTables to customise the sorting to any data format you wish.

MVC .NET and server-side processing

5th Dec 2011

Jeff Etter continues his series on DataTables with a post about using server-side processing to neutralise the issue of the flash of unscripted content when working with large tables.

How USA Today use DataTables

17th Nov 2011

Chris Schnaars describes how the team at USA Today created a DataTables with accordion row.

USA Today with drill down rows

17th Nov 2011

USA Today have made use of DataTables with drill down rows to show football salaries with the Google chart API.

Typo3 extension

3rd Nov 2011

Christopher Seidel has been working on an extension for Typo3 to be able to easily use DataTables in the CMS.

Knockout.js and DataTables

30th Oct 2011

Cognitive Shift have written and published an integration library for DataTables with a Knockout.js observable object array.

DataTables from an Excel spreadsheet

15th Oct 2011

Kyle Hatlestad shows us how data can be exported from Oracle databases into an HTML table for use with DataTables, adding filtering controls and other customisations.

Column filtering widget

8th Oct 2011

Dylan Kuhn brings us a new column filtering widget for DataTables which allows cumulative filters to be added and removed to and from a table.

Comparision of table libraries

4th Oct 2011

Sematext share their research with us, showing a comparision of various Javascript table libraries.

HooKan for EE with DataTables

27th Sep 2011

John de Beer has created the HooKan module for Expression Engine, utilising DataTables to simplify the permission management in EE.

Enhancing HTML tables

21st Sep 2011

Jovan Popovic has written an introduction to DataTables, and a number of plug-ins which are available for it, showing how easy it is to create powerful and flexible tables.

Fine tuning jEditable and DataTables

16th Sep 2011

Mike Henke shows us how to improve the integration between jEditable and DataTables for easier keyboard navigation.

MediaWiki extension

6th Sep 2011

Daniel Renfro has put together a MediaWiki extension that loads DataTables into your wiki pages. A simple call and then you have all the options of DataTables available.

PHP server-side processing overview

2nd Sep 2011

fbas goes through the example server-side processing script for DataTables, showing how each part works and how to custmise it for your own needs.

Rails 3.1 Gem

27th Aug 2011

Grigory Dmitrenko has created a Gem for Ruby on Rails 3.1 which combines the Meta Search plug-in with DataTables on the RoR platform.

Troubleshooting common errors

27th Aug 2011

As part of an on-going series of posts about DataTables fbas has a list of common mistakes that can be made with DataTables and how to solve them.

jQuery basics for DataTables

17th Aug 2011

As part of a series of articles on DataTables, fbas introduces some of the core concepts of jQuery which will help you get started with using DataTables.

Getting started with Javascript

17th Aug 2011

fbas has started a series of articles about using DataTables and in this post introduces some of the fundamentals of Javascript, with a DataTables focus. Perfect if you are new to Javascript!

TERMINATOR theme

9th Aug 2011

If you are looking for a quick way of creating very stylish looking tables, then the TERMINATOR theme is might be exactly what you are looking for with its DataTables support.

DataTables and XML / LINQ / .NET

7th Aug 2011

acfredricks has a detailed tutorial on how to pull data in DataTables from an XML source through LINQ with .NET.

DataTables and Knockout.js

1st Aug 2011

Josh Buckley has been working on integrating DataTables with Knockout.js. A handler is available for creating and updating a table.

MySQL FullText search

19th Jul 2011

fbas details how to use the MySQL FullText type for filtering in server-side processing DataTables.

SharePoint 2010 Excel REST API

16th Jul 2011

Gareth shows us how DataTables can consume data from the SharePoint 2010 Excel REST API.

Rails 3 and DataTables

14th Jul 2011

Blair Williams and Brandon Toone have created a plug-in for Rails 3 that allows easy integration of server-side processing with any ActiveRecord model.

Google Spreadsheet and DataTables

3rd Jul 2011

raza shows us how DataTables can be used to show data from a Google Spreadsheet.

Row grouping made easy

2nd Jul 2011

Jovan Popovic has been at it again - creating brilliant plug-ins for DataTables. This time it is all about making row grouping super easy to use.

Ignited Datatables updated

27th Jun 2011

numberone has ported a version of excellent Ignited Datatables library for Code Ignitor to a version which has no dependency on Code Ignitor. Easy joins and more with server-side processing!

DataTables 1.8.1 released

26th Jun 2011

The first maintenance update for DataTables 1.8 includes a couple of small features a nice bug fixes.

Drag and drop rows

21st Jun 2011

Macmicro shows us a method for drag and drop reordering of rows (in French - Google English translation)

Introducing Scroller

11th Jun 2011

Scroller is a new plug-in for DataTables which provides virtual scrolling for DataTables - super fast display of large datasets.

Lightbox editing

9th Jun 2011

Shaun McCran shows how a lightbox editing interface can be integrated with DataTables.

Introduction to styling DataTables

9th Jun 2011

BEV has a tutorial showing the basics of how DataTables can be styled. Also worth checking out the DataTables blog on this topic.

Browsing NetBeans plugins

8th Jun 2011

The NetBeans plugins portal uses DataTables to make their repository nice and easy to find what you want. Nice one folks!

OO PHP server-side scripts

6th Jun 2011

Marc Roulias has given us a fantastic set of object orientated server-side script for DataTables, which makes setting up a complex table super easy.

Easy column filtering

16th May 2011

Jovan Popovic has created a plug-in for DataTables which makes adding complex individual column filtering to a DataTables table super easy.

Server-side processing with CSV source

13th May 2011

Julien Maupetit shows us how to use Python to consume CSV data to perform server-side processing for DataTables.

Column filtering widgets

12th May 2011

This is a very cool extra for DataTables which provides advanced filtering options for your tables, adding a drop down for each column, with cascading selection options.

Server-side processing and Java

9th May 2011

Jovan Popovic turns his hand this time to showing us how server-side processing for DataTables can be implemented in Java, in this thorough tutorial.

Details view with ASP.NET MVC

2nd May 2011

Jovan Popovic continues his excellent series of articles about DataTables, this time showing how to integrate fnOpen with an Ajax request to an ASP.NET MVC backend to show details about a row.

Ignited-Datatables

11th Apr 2011

Work has been continuing at a fine pace with Ignited-Datatables - a server-side processing backend for CodeIgniter. Now with support for joins.

Mozilla using DataTables

9th Apr 2011

The Mozilla Metrics team have been doing some amazing work in creating a dashboard for visualising their Bugzilla database - and using DataTables for the table display.

Drag and drop reordering

9th Apr 2011

Jon Joyce has done some nice work showing how rows in a DataTable can be reordered through drag and drop.

Editable plug-in for DataTables

6th Apr 2011

Jovan Popovic has produced a superb abstraction layer for DataTables, building on jEditable to provide a highly configurable editing interface. There is a raft of demos and great documentation as well!

SSP with ASP MVC and LINQ

6th Apr 2011

David Martinez has written a fine tutorial showing how server-side processing for DataTables can be implemented with ASP MVC and LINQ.

Creating a parent / child relationship

6th Apr 2011

Jovan Popovic continues his execllent series of tutorials on DataTables with an article detailing how a parent / child relationship can be created between two DataTables.

Introduction to DataTables

6th Apr 2011

Michelle Minkoff has written a very nice introduction to DataTables. As she says "people like to click on stuff" - and DataTables is here to help!

LA Times using DataTables

2nd Apr 2011

The LA Times are also using DataTables for providing an intuitive table interface - in this case showing how much Californian redevelopment agencies are spending.

USA Today using DataTables

31st Mar 2011

USA Today are using DataTables to show NSLI coaches salaries.

DataTables Nuget

30th Mar 2011

Making life easier for integration with .NET, there is now a Nuget available for DataTables (thanks betoxiq).

CMIS and Alfresco with DataTables

23rd Mar 2011

Continuing his work with Alfresco and DataTables Bas Peters shows how to integrate CMIS (SQL for content repositories) with DataTables.

Alfresco and OpenSearch with DataTables

17th Mar 2011

Bas Peters has written an excellent tutorial article about how the Alfresco CMS can be integrated with DataTables server-side processing through OpenSearch.

CRUD with AST.NET MVC

14th Mar 2011

Jovan Popovic has written up a method of how to use ASP.NET MVC with DataTables to create a CRUD interface.

Archimede for Joomla!

6th Mar 2011

TobyTools have built a web analytics system for Joomla! which uses DataTables for its data reporting.

ServersideProcessing mit C# und WCF

6th Mar 2011

Ali Ramezani has written an article with a detailed description of how to use DataTables with C# and WCF (German).

Able_Datatables

1st Mar 2011

Peter Trerotola has writen a wrapper library for DataTables to integrate with PHP/Codeigniter. Full instrctions and integration code are provided.

DataTables and ASP.NET MVC

23rd Feb 2011

Jovan Popovic has written an excellent tutorial on how to integrate ASP.NET MVC with DataTables server-side processing.

DataTables with ASP MVC and LINQ

19th Feb 2011

David Martinez has written an article detailing how server-side processing can be used with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ.

Open Data Protocol (OData)

7th Feb 2011

Julie Lerman shows how OData can be consumed with DataTables using a .NET environment.

ColdFusion server-side processing

7th Feb 2011

Steve Blades has written a fnServerData function to make server-side processing integration easier with ColdFusion.

DataTables and the Play framework

28th Jan 2011

Peter Hilton has written an article about how DataTables can be integrated with the Play framework (CRUD and more).

Dynamically select columns

14th Jan 2011

Sensei has been continuing his work with DataTables, and now shows how selectable columns, an integration with aoColumnDefs can be done with .NET

Making your tables beautiful

8th Jan 2011

Orchard Hosting have a nice article on the advantages of using DataTables and how to set it up.

ExtJS style pagination

8th Jan 2011

Zach Curtis has created a pagination plug-in for DataTables which alters the DataTables pagination controls to match those found in ExtJS.