Search

Ah, nice! You can add 'beforeSend' the same way in DataTables!!! :) Allan, could you add this to docs? 'ajax': { 'url': url, 'type': 'GET', 'beforeSend': function (request) { request.setRequestHeader("token", token); } }

I am not using ajax, but prepopulating the table-data

Thanks everyone. I got the answer. Here it is in case someone needs it in future. $('#example').dataTable( { "ajax": '../ajax/data/arrays.txt', "initComplete": function( settings, json ) { console.log(json); } } );

will always make an Ajax request to the server.

That doesn't work for me unfortunately. Description is still undefined because render finishes before the ajax call is called. Any other ideas? I'm using an MVC 5 application

like) you can use ajax.data to return a string: ajax: { url: ..., data: function ( d

$('#summary-contacts-table').dataTable({ ajax: { url: restURL, dataSrc: "" }, dom: "Tfrtip", bInfo: false, searching: false, paging: false, columns: [ {"data":"name_last", fnCreatedCell: function (nTd, sData, oData, iRow, iCol) { $(nTd).append(', '+oData['name_first']); } }, { "data": "role" } ] });

Try adding dataSrc:'' to your ajax call. I believe I've seen Allan say to do this before when you just have an array without the data object. ajax: { url: 'site/ajax', dataSrc: '' }

at the documentation for ajax.dataSrc you will see it is a property of ajax - not a top level

column information in your Ajax data, so you could