ColVis example Two tables with individual controls

It can be useful to have DataTables initialise more than one table with a single call can for them to each have individual ColVis controllers. All this requires is a suitable jQuery selector to be used, and DataTables and ColVis will take care of the rest - as shown in this example.

NamePositionOfficeAgeSalary
NamePositionOfficeAgeSalary
Cedric Kelly Senior Javascript Developer Edinburgh 22 $433,060
Dai Rios Personnel Lead Edinburgh 35 $217,500
Gavin Joyce Developer Edinburgh 42 $92,575
Jennifer Acosta Junior Javascript Developer Edinburgh 43 $75,650
Martena Mccray Post-Sales support Edinburgh 46 $324,050
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NamePositionOfficeAgeSalary
NamePositionOfficeAgeSalary
Angelica Ramos Chief Executive Officer (CEO) London 47 $1,200,000
Bradley Greer Software Engineer London 41 $132,000
Bruno Nash Software Engineer London 38 $163,500
Haley Kennedy Senior Marketing Designer London 43 $313,500
Hermione Butler Regional Director London 47 $356,250
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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

$(document).ready(function() { $('table.display').DataTable( { dom: 'C<"clear">lfrtip', displayLength: 5 } ); } );

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.