Populating THEAD dynamically

John5788

Hello, is there a way to populate the contents of THEAD dynamically through DataTables? All I really see are functions for adding the data to the TBODY, but I require my table to have variable number of columns and I hope to achieve this by populating through DataTables.

Otherwise, I think my only other option is to write my own jQuery functions to grab JSON from server and write THEAD myself, then populate the TBODY using normal fnAddData() functions.

allan

DataTables can create a THEAD element if there isn't already one in existence for the table, as shown in this example: http://datatables.net/examples/data_sources/js_array.html . However, the creation is quite limited - basically to creating single cells with text in them. If you want something a bit more advanced, just regular DOM / jQuery methods will do the trick.

Allan