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export and print the table? The Excel export doesn't

Yes, it does. Requests are made to the server, the data is displayed in the table and the matches are highlighted.

when someone sorts the table it won't be readily

files": [] } Let's say the table should initially be sorted

title":"Age", "render":function(data,type,row,meta){return Number(data).toFixed(2);}}, ], }; // This table has no columns in

Take a look at the examples here: https://datatables.net/reference/api/ajax.reload() if you don't want to reload the table from an ajax source but simply redraw it you can use the same logic as above with draw(): https://datatables.net/reference/api/draw()

row in the parent table to populate the child

are building the HTML table then initializing Datatables. copying

a footer to the table before initializing the datatable

tag of the #example table and grepped the text