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are trying to do. Ajax is usually asynchronous, so

You have to run it thought a web-server. As I noted above, you can't use the file:// protocol. Allowing Ajax with file:// is a huge security risk. Allan

success callback of the ajax call.

Update - I changed the ajax call to the code

Thanks for the help Allan! It turns out that I was looking for the server-side processing feature with ajax set as a custom function. This resolved the issues I was having.

be shown while the Ajax request is being processed

Some references that may help: ajax and nested object data. In your case you might be looking for something like (not sure if it works with the legacy datatables): $(document).ready(function() { $('#example').dataTable( { // ... "columns": [ { "data": "result.id" }, { "data": "result.title" }, { "data": "result.date" }, { "data": "result.price" } ] } ); } );

I just changed "ajax" to "sAjaxSource" in my script and it seems to solve the problem, why it didn't detect the number of entries per page before? :-/

columns with a custom ajax function before sending it

Ok, if anyone encountered this problem? What do you recommend, server side order, load data via ajax? If I do that then you lose the selected rows ??