Question

I am successfully using the jquery-datatables-rails gem with twitter bootstrap. Using bootstraps requires using:

  sPaginationType: "bootstrap"

in the datatable jquery function. All is good.

By default the bootstrap pagination looks like this:

  <- previous  1  2  3  4  5  next ->

Is there a way to limit the number of pages created by the bootstrap pagination? For instance, so it looks like this?:

  <- previous  1  2  3 next ->

Answer 1

The number of displayed pages is hardcoded in sample code given by dataTables (and in the jquery-datatables-rails gem).

I submitted a pull-request to use the same behavior as “full_numbers” pagination.

When this pull-request will be merged, you will just have to initialize your datatables like that:

$.fn.dataTableExt.oPagination.iFullNumbersShowPages = 3;
$('#my-table').dataTable({
    "bPaginate": true,
    "sPaginationType": "bootstrap",
    "bScrollCollapse": true
});