Stop Display of "No data available in table"

dickbob

Initially my table has no data and I get "No data available in table" which is the expected functionality.

I'd like to have no text or row created as I will be populating the table via Ajax depending on user action.

Is there a setting to stop the display of this row in the table? I can't seem to find one.

TIA

Richard

allan

Sounds like sLoadingRecords might be what you want: http://datatables.net/ref#sLoadingRecords .

Allan

dickbob

Thanks for your swift thoughts but no joy. I've seen that before when server-side data has been slow to be delivered.

I've also tried sEmptyTable and sZeroRecords with them set to an empty string but they still return a default string in the row I don't want to see.

allan

Which version of DataTables are you using?

Allan

dickbob

1.9.0

allan

Hmmm - that should work okay. Can you give me a link to the page please?

Allan

dickbob

Sorry for the delay in coming back to you. Project pressures! :-)

This is for an intranet site so no accessible page available but here are some code snippets...

[code]$('#courseBlockListing').dataTable({"bInfo":false
,"bLengthChange":false
,"bFilter":false
,"bPaginate":false
,"bSort": false
,"oLanguage": {"sZeroRecords": "", "sEmptyTable": ""}
});[/code]

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...which produces the following generated HTML...

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...and I don't want that empty row/cell in the table body to be rendered.

Thoughts?

dickbob

I've styled out (display:none) the "dataTables_empty" class in the short term to get over this issue whilst a more robust solution is considered.

allan

> ...and I don't want that empty row/cell in the table body to be rendered.

I see - at the moment DataTables doesn't offer an option for that. I don't remember coming across such a requirement before, but I will put it on the feature list queue and watch for any other requests for this particular future. Until then, your display:none method sounds like a good solution :-)

Allan

dickbob

Glad I've managed to express myself clearly this time! :-)

It's just that I want to populate the tbody via Ajax after the page has been initially rendered so don't what there to be anything initially in there.

I'll keep an eye out for future releases and hope it makes it :-)

Thanks once again for your time and efforts ($25 private donation made).

allan

Thanks very much for the donation! Hugely appreciated :-)

One option I've just thought of, is that you could use fnDrawCallback on the first draw (before initialisation is complete when doing an Ajax call) to remove the "spare" element. This example shows how that might be done: http://live.datatables.net/umumah/edit#javascript,html .

Thinking some more on this... you could do this: http://live.datatables.net/umumah/2/edit - no need for fnDrawCallback since the Ajax is async - while the empty() call it not :-)

Regards,
Allan

dickbob

Thanks for the .empty() suggestion. That works nicely!