Search

but that throws a 'Cannot reinitialise DataTable' error... That is correct - you have you put your ajax initialisation in with your first DataTables initialisation. See this section of the manual. Allan

slowest possible option for initialisation of the DataTable. Allan

other datatables. Now, my initial idea was to loop

Bootstrap to trigger the initialisation of the second table.

Yes - exactly as Kevin says. You are initialising the same element in two different ways. You would need to use something like: if ( $.fn.dataTable.isDataTable( '#datatable' ) ) { $('#datatable').DataTable().destroy(); $('#datatable').empty(); } ...// do your initialisation Remove the destroy option. Allan

be included in that initial data response (DataTables would

I wrote in my initial part). Even how I

Yes - you can't select columns based on the name during initialisation I'm afraid (unless you do some jQuery trickery). You need to use a callback function as @bindrid says. Allan

total in my db initially my db has the

from both pages on initial search. For example the