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Do you have border-collapse: collapse set in the CSS for the table. If so, remove it - it makes column width calculations simply impossible :-(. Allan

The debugger suggests there are no tables, which probably means that there was a JS error while initialising the table. What does the browser's console show? Allan

@allan, orderCellsTop thing works well, but when I use "scrollX": true, search is not happening http://jsfiddle.net/s8F9V/26/ Just updated the below code in your fiddle var table = $('#example').DataTable( { "orderCellsTop": true , "scrollX": true, } );

This is for version 1.9.4 and $("#research_table").dataTable().rows().remove(); rows().remove() is a 1.10 API. To clear the data in the table in the legacy versions use fnClearTable . Allan

var noAjaxPlease = false; var table = $('table.dataTable').DataTable({ preDrawCallback: function() { if(noAjaxPlease)

that DataTables splits the table into three when you

in DataTables since the table showing the fixed columns

section outside of the table. Loop through the table

the rows in the table that will update the

small enough that the table should be scrolling, then