DataTables is a brilliant jQuery plugin that instantly adds a full set of advanced interaction controls over whatever HTML table it gets attached to. It’s flexible, well-coded and does the job in a fantastic manner, thereby lifting a lot of grunt work off any developer who doesn’t feel like creating table controls up from scratch any more.
In bullet-point form (because copy & paste is always the easiest way), DataTables basically offers up all of this on a platter to you:
- Variable length pagination
- On-the-fly filtering
- Multi-column sorting with data type detection
- Smart handling of column widths
- Display data from almost any data source (DOM, Javascript array, Ajax file and server-side processing)
- Fully internationalisable
- UK, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Portuguese Brazilian (and more) translations provided
- jQuery UI ThemeRoller support
- Rock solid – backed by a suite of 1300+ unit tests
- State saving
- Hidden columns
- Dynamic creation of tables
- Ajax auto loading of data
- Custom DOM positioning
- Single column filtering
- Alternative pagination types
- Non-destructive DOM interaction
- Sorting column(s) highlighting
- Extensive plug-in support (Sorting, type detection, API functions, pagination and filtering)
- Fully themeable by CSS
- Solid documentation
- Full support for Adobe AIR
In a nutshell, it’s good… very good.
Related Link: http://www.datatables.net/index
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