Question

I am using Datatables and filling the data using Ajax from server side. I don’t want to pull whole data at once from server but need to fetch results for a single page and when user press on next or previous link, I want to make an ajax call and fetch results on the fly for that page only.

Is it possible with datatables?

Answer 1

What you need is proper initialization

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').dataTable( {
        "bProcessing": true,
        "bServerSide": true,
        "sAjaxSource": "scripts/server_processing.php"
    } );
} ); 

For complete documentation and example have a look here