Pagination plug-ins

The style of the pagination options that DataTables presents to the end-user can greatly effect the look and feel of your table, as well as, of course, the interaction behaviour. DataTables has four built in paging control types (pagingType), and through the pagination plug-ins below you can add additional options.

How to use

To use a pagination plug-in you must include the pagination plug-in code from the plug-ins available below, after you load the DataTables library, but before you initialise the DataTable. When initialising the DataTable, you must also tell it to make use of this plug-in, rather than using the default, by setting the pagingType to the value required by the plug-in.

As an example the code below makes use of the scrolling pagination plug-in saved into a file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dataTables.scrollingPagination.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('#example').dataTable( {
            "pagingType": "scrolling"
        } );
    } );
</script>

Plug-ins