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original publication: 1st March 2024: Change $.fn.dataTable.render to DataTable.render

original publication: 1st March 2024: Change $.fn.dataTable.absoluteOrder to DataTable.absoluteOrder

14 Sat, May 16th, 2015 Jade Dale Sit Amet

Since this blog post was published, DataTables 2 has introduced full support for caption elements through the caption option and caption() API method. There are many under-used, or under-rated, tags in the HTML specification, but one that is of particular interest to us in tabular display is the caption tag. This little known element provides the ability to label a table with information that provides a summary for the data that is presented in the table. An example might be "Staff database" in an internal system, or "School results 2013-2014" in a news article. The caption element provides context to the table in a document, and this post will explore how it can be used and styled in a DataTable, which has full support for captions.

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original publication: 1st March 2024: Updated to use layout

Since this blog post was published we've introduced our own CDN, powered by CloudFlare. The Microsoft CDN noted in this article is no longer updated with the latest versions of DataTables. When using Javascript libraries such as DataTables you want your users to be able to get the software as quickly as possible and one way to help achieve this goal is to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN). CDNs provide edge servers that are tuned to provide media files with very low latency to web-browsers, and as a user receives a file from the CDN the browser will cache it for reuse. This means that different sites using the same Javascript library can share a large performance improvement since the browser does not need to download the same file from different servers for each site. Microsoft have very kindly offered to host DataTables on their CDN allowing you, as developers using DataTables, to take advantage of their CDN and all the advantages that go with it. Scott Guthrie of Microsoft has a blog post introducing the Microsoft CDN and explaining how it works. With DataTables available on the Microsoft CDN, it is now wonderfully easy to use DataTables on your site, while also taking advantage of the benefits of using a CDN as media repository. You don't even need to include any media files on your own server! To include DataTables on your page simply include the following HTML: <!-- DataTables CSS --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/css/jquery.dataTables.css"> <!-- jQuery --> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf8" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script> <!-- DataTables --> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf8" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script> Then you can initialise DataTables as you would when including the script from any other server: < pre class="brush: js; font-size: 75%"> $(document).ready(function(){ $('#example').dataTable(); }); ```

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