Preamble

The page controls which are used by default in DataTables (forward and backward buttons only) are great for most situations, but there are cases where you may wish to customise the controls presented to the end user. This is made simple by DataTables through it's extensible pagination mechanism. There are two types of pagination controls built into DataTables: two_button (default) and full_numbers. To switch between these two types, use the sPaginationType initialisation parameter. You can add additional types of pagination control by extending the $.fn.dataTableExt.oPagination object.

The example below shows the full_numbers type of pagination, where 'first', 'previous', 'next' and 'last' buttons are presented, as well as the five pages around the current page.

Live example

Initialisation code

$(document).ready(function() {
	$('#example').dataTable( {
		"sPaginationType": "full_numbers"
	} );
} );

Other examples

Basic initialisation

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

Advanced initialisation

• Column rendering
• Sorting without HTML tags
• Row callback
• Footer callback
• Change language information from a file (internationalisation)

API

• Dynamically add a new row
• Dynamically create a table
• Individual column filtering
• User selectable rows

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