Question

How do I add title to jquery data table dynamically. title is retrieve from server. Sorry, I sense this might be basic but i’ve been banging my head against it.

http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/DataTables

Basically i want to add title in between “show entities” and search textbox.
Any suggestions / pointers ?

Thanks in adavance.

Answer 1

You can control DOM elements that are generated by the datatable using the sDom settings:

$('#example').dataTable( {
    "sDom": 'l<"toolbar">frtip'
} );

This way you can put some div with some class e.g. “toolbar” (syntax is <“toolbar”> in the example above) and create script that will put the content of the div e.g.:

$("div.toolbar").html('<b>This is my custom title</b>');

See http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/advanced_init/dom_toolbar.html as an example.