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"ajax": "data/arrays.txt",
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"targets": -1,
"data": null,
"defaultContent": "<button>Click!</button>"
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$('#example tbody').on( 'click', 'button', function () {
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alert( data[0] +"'s salary is: "+ data[ 5 ] );
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<h1>DataTables example <span>Generated content for a column</span></h1>
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<p>In some tables you might wish to have some content generated automatically. This can be done in a number of ways:</p>
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<li>
<a href="//datatables.net/reference/option/columns.render"><code class="option" title="DataTables initialisation option">columns.render</code></a> for
content that is dynamic (i.e. based upon the row's data)
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<a href="//datatables.net/reference/option/columns.defaultContent"><code class="option" title=
"DataTables initialisation option">columns.defaultContent</code></a> for static content (i.e. simple strings)
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<p>This examples shows the use of <a href="//datatables.net/reference/option/columns.defaultContent"><code class="option" title=
"DataTables initialisation option">columns.defaultContent</code></a> to create a <em>button</em> element in the last column of the table. A simple jQuery
<code>click</code> event listener is used to watch for clicks on the row, and when activated uses the <a href=
"//datatables.net/reference/api/row().data()"><code class="api" title="DataTables API method">row().data()</code></a> method to get the data for the row and show a
bit of information about it in an <code>alert</code> box. This is a simple use case, but it can be built up to be arbitrarily complex.</p>
<p>Note also that the <a href="//datatables.net/reference/option/columns.data"><code class="option" title=
"DataTables initialisation option">columns.data</code></a> option for the column has been set to <code>null</code> to indicate that the column has no information
that should be obtained data source object.</p>
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<th>Name</th>
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<th>Office</th>
<th>Extn.</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
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<p>The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:</p><code class="multiline language-js">$(document).ready(function() {
var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
"ajax": "data/arrays.txt",
"columnDefs": [ {
"targets": -1,
"data": null,
"defaultContent": "<button>Click!</button>"
} ]
} );
$('#example tbody').on( 'click', 'button', function () {
var data = table.row( $(this).parents('tr') ).data();
alert( data[0] +"'s salary is: "+ data[ 5 ] );
} );
} );</code>
<p>In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:</p>
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<p>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:</p><code class="multiline language-css"></code>
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<p>The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:</p>
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<p>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 <a href="//datatables.net/manual/server-side">the protocol described in the DataTables
documentation</a>.</p>
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<h3><a href="../server_side/index.html">Server-side</a></h3>
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