Preamble

At times you will wish to be able to create a table from dynamic information passed directly to DataTables, rather than having it read from the document. This is achieved using the "aaData" array in the initialisation object. A table node must first be created before the initialiser is called (as shown in the code below). This is also useful for optimisation - if you are able to format the data as required, this method can save a lot of DOM parsing to create a table.

Live example

Initialisation code

$(document).ready(function() {
	$('#demo').html( '' );
	$('#example').dataTable( {
		"aaData": [
			/* Reduced data set */
			[ "Trident", "Internet Explorer 4.0", "Win 95+", "4", "X" ],
			[ "Trident", "Internet Explorer 5.0", "Win 95+", "5", "C" ],
			[ "Trident", "Internet Explorer 5.5", "Win 95+", "5.5", "A" ],
			[ "Trident", "Internet Explorer 6.0", "Win 98+", "6", "A" ],
			[ "Trident", "Internet Explorer 7.0", "Win XP SP2+", "7", "A" ],
			[ "Gecko", "Firefox 1.5", "Win 98+ / OSX.2+", "1.8", "A" ],
			[ "Gecko", "Firefox 2", "Win 98+ / OSX.2+", "1.8", "A" ],
			[ "Gecko", "Firefox 3", "Win 2k+ / OSX.3+", "1.9", "A" ],
			[ "Webkit", "Safari 1.2", "OSX.3", "125.5", "A" ],
			[ "Webkit", "Safari 1.3", "OSX.3", "312.8", "A" ],
			[ "Webkit", "Safari 2.0", "OSX.4+", "419.3", "A" ],
			[ "Webkit", "Safari 3.0", "OSX.4+", "522.1", "A" ]
		],
		"aoColumns": [
			{ "sTitle": "Engine" },
			{ "sTitle": "Browser" },
			{ "sTitle": "Platform" },
			{ "sTitle": "Version", "sClass": "center", "sType": "numeric" },
			{ "sTitle": "Grade",   "sClass": "center" }
		]
	} );	
} );

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.