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is happening in the initial page load, I am

Are you initialising the table inside a

where is your DataTables initialisation? There is no call

passing aoData as an initialisation parameter as well as

Hi Bob, You need to set the initial paging length to -1: http://datatables.net/ref#iDisplayLength . The aLengthMenu parameter doesn't effect the initial value, only the values that the user can pick from. Allan

DataTable object? [code] /* * Example initialisation */ $(document).ready( function () { var oTable

You should set up the drop down list like this: [code] $(document).ready(function() { $('#example').dataTable( { // change the drop down list "aLengthMenu": [[10, 25, 50, -1], [10, 25, 50, "All"]], // set the initial value "iDisplayLength": 50 } ); } ); [/code] see http://www.datatables.net/ref#aLengthMenu

column definitions on-the-fly after initialisation. You would need an

which includes a new initialisation parameter called sServerMethod which

I finally figured it out. The problem was not with iTotalRecords or iTotalDisplayRecords, but with the initial iDisplayLength - setting. those were strings and thus created the strange behaviour.