Question

Normaly a ajax Datasource (for Datatables) looks like this:

"aaData": [
            [ "Trident", "Internet Explorer 4.0", "Win 95+", 4, "X" ],
            [ "Trident", "Internet Explorer 5.0", "Win 95+", 5, "C" ]
]

Is it possible to have a DOM response to an ajax request in Datatables ?
and have the server respond with html instead of Json ?

I would like to be able to just return the html:

<tr>
 <td>cell 11</td>  <td>cell 12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>cell 21</td>  <td>cell 22</td>
</tr>

This html example is a simplification, I want to return html because some of my columns are more complicated than just a simple text or date field.

NOTE:
I imagine this could be done with fnRowCallback, by generating the html code on the client side and using the normal Json response data, but it seems a bit unelegant to me.

Answer 1

I usually generate the code server side withouth problems and send the html back as json

"aaData": [
    [ "<a href.....>Trident</a>", "<div class='myclass'>Internet Explorer 4.0</div>"],

]

in this way you generate the html serverside and then it gets inserted as is in the <td>