Data sources

DataTables can obtain data from four different fundamental sources:

HTML document (DOM)
Javascript (array / objects)
Ajax sourced data with client-side processing
Ajax sourced data with server-side processing

Which of these options is used to populate the table data depends upon how the table is initialised. The examples in this section show these four different data source types.

Data sources

HTML (DOM) sourced data
Ajax sourced data
Javascript sourced data
Server-side processing