- Bootstrap 4 is currently in beta so things can, and probably will
still change. Bootstrap 4 packages for DataTables won't be made
available until at least a beta release of Bootstrap 4.
- A few things have changed in Bootstrap 4 and rather than trying to
make the exisiting Bootstrap files work for both BS3 and BS4 it makes
sense to offer both. We'd need to detect which version of BS is loaded
and that can be quite unreliable (and delayed since the body would
need to be available).
- Pagingation requires a couple of classes, but no change in structure
- BS4 don't include icons any more, so need to use UTF8 arrows to show
sorting (don't particularly want other dependencies, although it is
easy to add with CSS if you want more icon control)
- Outstanding issue: The select element for paging control is not of a
consistent height with the search input. This appears to be a
Bootstrap issue: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/17194
Rational for this is that the number renderer expects a number
input, not HTML, but if non-numeric input is given the value is just
returned (now escaped) - for example an empty string.
- I just updated my PHP and HTML Tidy was not installed which resulted
in the examples in the dist repo all being rewritten unfortunately.
This should stop that happening again.
- If d or objectRead were truthful then the row's data object would be
replaced with an empty object. This was one shortcut in code too many!
- Relates to thread 29530 with thanks to idleog.
- Bootstrap is proving to be a far more popular theme for DataTables -
this example comes from back in the day when jQuery UI theming was
first added, so it is no longer required.
