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• dogcatgoat Posts: 38Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2011

  Would using JQuery to manually delete/add the controls back be the best solution?
  Thanks,
• allan Posts: 63,498Questions: 1Answers: 10,471 Site admin

  March 2011

  You can't modify the feature enablement dynamically in DataTables (well you can - but it's not designed for that) - however what you can do to achieve the effect of it is simply hide the elements when you don't want them. For example $('div.dataTable_filter').css('display','none'); will hide the filtering input.
  
  Allan
• dogcatgoat Posts: 38Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2011

  Dear Allan,
  Thank you very much for your response.
  I can see that there are other also elements such as:
  
  dataTables_length
  dataTables.info
  dataTables.paginate
  
  If I have multiple data tables, though, I wasn't sure how I can selectively turn on/off the display for each of them. Right now the div.XXX.css.('display','none') acts globally across all my tables. Ideally I would like to display tables with lengths such as 2, 41, 13, 0 on the same page and I would like the flexibility to hide the controls depending on the table size.
  Thanks again :).
• allan Posts: 63,498Questions: 1Answers: 10,471 Site admin

  March 2011

  The are a number of ways of doing that - do the tables have IDs? In which case you can do something like $('#ID_filter').css('display','none'); etc. Another option is to use oTable.fnSettings().nTableWrapper - which will give you the node for the container element for any given DataTables instance.
  
  Allan
• dogcatgoat Posts: 38Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2011

  Dear Allan,
  Thank you for your advice-- both techniques you suggested work!
  
  kind regards