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You can use the search option to define the initial search. Kevin

So, it doesn't work when it first gets called in initComplete. Colin already explain why this happened: Yep, I agree with that. Forgot you were calling it from initComplete. Kevin

Ajax is an asynchronous process. It sounds like you are initializing Datatables when the HTML table is empty. Move your Datatables initialization code into the Ajax success function after the $('#loading').html(res); statement. Kevin

function to the code initComplete option like this (fires

tableau').DataTable({ ajax: { ..... cut config .... initComplete: function(settings, json) { // Une fois

extend: 'colvis', columns: ':not(.noVis)' } ], initComplete: function () { this.api().columns().every( function () { var

node, config ) { //Do something } } ], initComplete: function () { show_hide_buttons(); } } ): function show_hide_buttons()

columns set in the initialisation only be applied to

You can hide the table or div or whatever is appropriate for your page to hide HTML table until Datatables initializes. Use initComplete to unhide the hidden element with Jquery or your preferred method. Kevin

It's because you're cloning a table element after the initialisation, so DataTables has no knowledge of it. It would be better to do something like this - so the headers are present before the initialisation, Colin