Show the text "Loading"

INTONE

I notice that when I am looking around on the demos provided I generally see a "loading" text which is showed until the datatable is populated but that is not seen in my datatables. Also I am not seeing any special code from the examples that implement the "loading" feature. Therefore my question is how is this done?

allan

The language.loadingRecords option is used to display loading text for Ajax sourced tables.

Allan

edited to point to correct parameter!

INTONE

ok Alan. Thanks for your quick response. However I am using server side processing on all of my tables. Is there a way to accomplish this with server side processing? I see one coveat :

"Note that this parameter is not used when loading data by server-side processing, just Ajax sourced data with client-side processing."

allan

If you are using server-side processing add a tr element in the table's body that is simply something like <tr><td colspan="4">Loading...</td></tr>. DataTables will ignore it in server-side processing and then replace it when the data has been loaded.

Allan

INTONE

Thanks. I think that should be colspan in stead of rowspan.

allan

Doh - it certainly should. Corrected :-)

Allan

INTONE

Or i could just use the processing: true - native is better.