Preamble

Events which are assigned to the table elements are retained by DataTables such that they will still work as you would expect, even after changing the sort order etc. (no need to reapply the event handlers). You can do this at any time, although if you apply the handlers after the table has been initialised there is an extra set. Rather then queriing the DOM to get all rows (since they aren't there) you need to use the fnGetNodes() API function. This is shown in this example.

Live example

Initialisation code

var oTable;

$(document).ready(function() {
	/*
	 * First step is to create title attributes for the rows in the table
	 * This isn't needed if the required 'title' attribute is already set in the HTML in the
	 * DOM 
	 */
	$('#example tbody tr').each( function() {
		var sTitle;
		var nTds = $('td', this);
		var sBrowser = $(nTds[1]).text();
		var sGrade = $(nTds[4]).text();
		
		if ( sGrade == "A" )
			sTitle =  sBrowser+' will provide a first class (A) level of CSS support.';
		else if ( sGrade == "C" )
			sTitle = sBrowser+' will provide a core (C) level of CSS support.';
		else if ( sGrade == "X" )
			sTitle = sBrowser+' does not provide CSS support or has a broken implementation. Block CSS.';
		else
			sTitle = sBrowser+' will provide an undefined level of CSS support.';
		
		this.setAttribute( 'title', sTitle );
	} );
	
	/* Init DataTables */
	oTable = $('#example').dataTable();
	
	/* Apply the tooltips */
	$( oTable.fnGetNodes() ).tooltip( {
		"delay": 0,
		"track": true,
		"fade": 250
	} );
} );

Other examples

Basic initialisation

• Zero configuration
• Feature enablement
• Sorting data
• Multi-column sorting
• Multiple tables
• Hidden columns
• DOM positioning
• State saving
• Alternative pagination styles
• Change language information (internationalisation)

Advanced initialisation

• Events (pre initialisation)
• Events (post initialisation)
• Column rendering
• Sorting without HTML tags
• Row callback
• Footer callback
• Ajax source
• Change language information from a file (internationalisation)

API

• Dynamically add a new row
• Dynamically create a table
• Individual column filtering
• Highlight rows and columns
• User selectable rows (multiple rows)
• User selectable rows (single row) and delete rows
• Editable rows (with jEditable)
• Submit form with elements in table
• Add custom API functions (plug-ins)

Please refer to the DataTables documentation for full information about it's API properties and methods.