Preamble

There are times when you might find it useful to display only a sub-set of the information that was available in the original table. For example you might want to reduce the amount of data shown on screen to make it clearer for the user. This hidden data can still be filtered upon allowing the user access to that data (for example 'tag' information for a row entry), or this can be disabled. In the table below both the platform and engine version columns have been hidden, the former is searchable, the latter is not.

Live example

Initialisation code

$(document).ready(function() {
	$('#example').dataTable( {
		"aoColumns": [ 
			/* Engine */   null,
			/* Browser */  null,
			/* Platform */ { "bSearchable": false,
			                 "bVisible":    false },
			/* Version */  { "bVisible":    false },
			/* Grade */    null
		] } );
} );

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.