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already be using an ajax page. If you switch

appear to be using ajax, it's a bit difficult

information loaded from the Ajax source takes precedence. That

this is because the ajax data has not loaded

do sererSide, it's your ajax page that needs to

var t = $(document).ready(function() { $('#example').DataTable( { "ajax": "data/objects.txt", "columns": [ { "data": null }, { "data": "name" }, { "data": "position" }, { "data": "office" }, { "data": "extn" }, { "data": "start_date" }, { "data": "salary" } ] } ); } ); t.on( 'order.dt search.dt', function () { t.column(0, {search:'applied', order:'applied'}).nodes().each( function (cell, i) { cell.innerHTML = i+1; } ); } ).draw();

dataTables fires off the ajax event with the modified

solution you can use ajax as a function thus:

use ajax.data (Editor) and ajax.data (DataTables) - they both work the same way: ajax: { url: ..., type: ..., data: function

is to have your ajax page return the json