Question

Our product owner would like the our empty tables to display just table header when there is no data in table. I can’t seem to prevent dataTable from creating a row with “empty…” message.

Here is the code I use to initialize the dataTable. I know some things here are wrong. I have been experimenting. 🙂

$('#InBox').dataTable({
    "bFilter": false,
    "bPaginate": false,
    "bLengthChange": false,
    "bInfo": false,
    "oLanguage": {
        "sEmptyTable": '',
        "sInfoEmpty": ''
    }
});

Here is some code I tried to put in the init function of the dataTable, but I am not sure how to get it to work.

/* Table is empty - create a row with an empty message in it */
            var anRows[0] = document.createElement('tr');

            if (typeof oSettings.asStripClasses[0] != 'undefined') {
                anRows[0].className = oSettings.asStripClasses[0];
            }

            var nTd = document.createElement('td');
            nTd.setAttribute('valign', "top");
            nTd.colSpan = oSettings.aoColumns.length;
            nTd.className = oSettings.oClasses.sRowEmpty;
            if (oSettings.fnRecordsTotal() > 0) {
                if (oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords.indexOf("_MAX_") != -1)
                    oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords = oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords.replace("_MAX_", oSettings.fnRecordsTotal());
                nTd.innerHTML = oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords;
            } else {
                nTd.innerHTML = oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroRecords;
            }

            anRows[iRowCount].appendChild(nTd);

Dan

Answer 1

try this

$('#InBox').dataTable({
  "bFilter": false,
   "bPaginate": false,
   "bLengthChange": false,
   "bInfo": false,
   "oLanguage": {
    "sEmptyTable": '',
    "sInfoEmpty": ''
   },
   "sEmptyTable": "There are no records",
 });

otherwise you can try this

$('#InBox').dataTable({
  "bFilter": false,
   "bPaginate": false,
   "bLengthChange": false,
   "bInfo": false,
   "oLanguage": {
    "sEmptyTable": '',
    "sInfoEmpty": ''
   }
 });
$('.dataTables_empty').html("No record found.");