The easiest way to initialise the Responsive extension for DataTables is simply to add the class responsive to the
table's class name. When the DataTable is initialised the Responsive extension will automatically enable itself on these tables.
The may also use the class dt-responsive to perform the same action, since responsive may be used in your stylesheet, or may have some
other meaning in a CSS framework being used (for example Bootstrap).
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable();
} );
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:
This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:
The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:
This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.
The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.