Update to DataTables with a number of bug fixes and a lot of optimisations over 1.6.0. Also includes updates to the three main plug-ins (FixedHeader, KeyTable and TableTools).

New release of DataTables which includes a number of improvements, a few new features and of course bug fixes :-). The new features include the ability to specify table control elements multiple times in the sDom parameter, which means you can now have pagination (filtering, info and length) controls both above and below the table if you wish. A number of API enhancements also make developing for DataTables that little bit easier.

Also included in this package are the FixedHeader, TableTools and KeyTable plug-ins for DataTables allowing:

- FixedHeader: fixed header (footer, left and right columns as well) to be attached to the table
- TableTools: CSV, Excel, clipboard and print exporting of the table
- KeyTable: Keyboard navigation of the table.

Enjoy :-)

DataTables 1.5.2 is quite an exciting update as DataTables now includes full support for jQuery UI's ThemeRoller ( example). Look and feel integration along with professional styling for your tables is now trivial to achieve thanks to the excellent ThemeRoller tool.

There are also a couple of minor bug fixes in this release which improve stability.

This latest (and greatest) version of DataTables sees loads of new features, including:

New: Server-side processing for handing of the processing of large data sets to a database. Also allows for Gear and AIR database support.
New: New plug-in support for custom filtering
New: Unit test framework with 1'300+ tests
New: Full support for Adobe AIR
New: Many new examples show casing the power of DataTables
Fixed: Plenty of bugs!

This is next incremental release towards 1.5 final. This is mainly a maintenance release for small bug fixes in the beta serial, but there is one new feature - you can not predefine filtering options through the use of oSearch and aoSearchCols as initialisation parameters (these objects are the same as the ones DataTables uses internally).

You can download it here:
http://datatables.net/releases/dataTables-1.5.beta.7.zip

Full release notes:
http://datatables.net/download

Discussion:
http://datatables.net/forums

Enjoy :-)

DataTables 1.4.3 includes a couple number of bug fixes. These fixes are all back ported from the 1.5 beta series (and as such are all fixed in that branch):

New (back ported from 1.5.0 beta 4): Added option for using original data for sorting and filtering (when using fnRender) - bUseRendered ( http://datatables.net/usage#bUseRendered )

Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta 4): $ and ^ are escaped as regex characters now
Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta 4): Filtering with a string as anything but a post fix filtered on the old result, rather than the full table.
Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta): sClass is now applied to DOM read cells as well as dynamically created ones
Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta): sAjaxSource didn't do an initial sort on the retrieved data

This is effectively a stabilisation release for the 1.4 series and is likely to be the last 1.4 release (unless there is something seriously wrong!)

Along-side this release, DataTables 1.5 beta 4 has been released: http://datatables.net/download

I'm very pleased to release a beta version of DataTables 1.5. After some intensive development this week, there are a couple of very significant new features including:

- Support for server-side processing of data
- Ability to get/display data from any source (Gears for example)
- Adobe AIR support
- Ability to show or hide columns programatically through the API.

This is very much a beta release, but it seems to be hold up quite well in my tests, and it also fixes a number of issues that were present in 1.4. I've also build a unit testing framework for DataTables, which will thoroughly test all releases in future, but I'm still in the middle of writing the tests. 1.5 final won't be released until I'm happy that I've got a comprehensive test suite (we all want solid software!), but hopefully that won't be too long.

Maintenance release:

• Updated: Plenty of attention to fnRender() - thanks to mimic on the forum.
• Updated: fnRender()ed data is stored in the internal aoData internal storage array to
• Updated: fnRender callback, aData parameter is now only the row in question - not the entire table

• New: Pass oSettings to fnInitComplete
• New: Add a third element to the array returned by fnGetPosition for TD elements - to indicate the position with hidden nodes
• New: Added a single row get for fnGetNodes()
• New: Use JSON.parse() for cookie if it is available for security. This is recommend.
• New: Regular expression flag for global and individual column filtering is now retained. Therefore you could now enable global regex filtering by doing 'oTable.fnSettings().oPreviousSearch.bEscapeRegex = false;'.

• Fixed: Filtering did not work when using fnRender()
• Fixed: fnUpdate() now considers fnRender()
• Fixed: fnGetData() speed improved for a single row
• Fixed: when initialising an empty table (ajax or aaData) a sorting type of 'string' is not assumed
• Fixed: Bug in _fnColumnIndexToVisible() which could cause issues with fnUpdate()
• Fixed: When oLanguage was specified, the DataTables initialisation process returned too early due to a setTimeout poll. This is only needed for an XHR language file.

I'm very pleased to announce the release of DataTables 1.4.0. After a beta cycle of around one month, many new features and enhancements have been added to DataTables, plenty of bugs have been fixed, and edge usage cases resolved.

Along side the release of DataTables 1.4.0, this new web-site has been created to help document DataTables initialisation parameters and API, and also to foster further development of this plug-in. A plug-ins section has been added, and every is encouraged to share their thoughts on the forums.

I hope you enjoy developing with DataTables 1.4.

New in DataTables 1.4

• Non-destructive DOM interaction!
• Ajax auto loading of data
• Sorting column(s) highlighting
• Type detection for dynamic data (and plugin support)
• State saving
• API plug-in mechanism
• Speed - v1.4 is considerably faster for most common tasks
• Improved documentation (new web-site)

A bit of a tidy up, a few bug fixes and a couple of enhancements as DataTables heads towards 1.4 final :-)

Beta 8:

• New: Empty row td now has a class name of 'dataTables_empty'
• New: fnAddData returns an array of integers with the indexes of aoData which have been added
• New: Added Norwegian language file (nb_NO) - with thanks to Petter Ekrann for this translation.
• Fixed: aaSorting can be of zero length
• Fixed: You can pass parameters to custom API functions (with thanks to Benedikt Forchhammer for this fix)
• Fixed: Sorting with individual column filtering (but no global filter) resulted in the column filtering being lost.
• Fixed: Empty row now has asStripClasses[0] applied as a class name
• Fixed: A whole bunch of little improvements to the code thanks to jslint

Beta 9:

• New: fnUpdate function to update the data currently on display in the table. Takes account of filtering, sorting etc.
• New: fnAddData now has a second parameter, a boolean to indicate redraw required or not (default true)
• Fixed: Nested tables no longer have their rows removed when DataTables redraws!
• Fixed: Remove fnDecrement API function (can be added back as an API function if anyone wants it - but it was broken anyway...)
• Fixed: Remove _fnMasterIndexFromDisplay internal function - unused

Several improvements made and bugs fixed since beta 3:

New: Add (optional) third parameter to fnFilter() API function to indicate is regex strings should be escaped or not. Default true.
New: A couple of extra classes for the 'full_numbers' pagination buttons.
New: Plug-in method for custom API functions
New: API plug-in example
New: Package gzipped DataTables as standard (9.2k)
New: Portuguese Brazilian translation
New: Added variable length for the 'full_numbers' pagination type thorugh the variable jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oPagination.iFullNumbersShowPages - with thanks to Jovan Popovic for his work on this!

Fixed: Updated German language file (thanks to Jorg Holz)
Fixed: Save state now works in IE (IE has an issue with the path of a cookie being anything but root)
Fixed: Save saving with full numbers rejigged slightly
Fixed: Tidied up a few spaces where there should have been tabs
Bug fix: Custom defined titles (sTitle) are applied to non-dynamically build tables
Bug fix: Fix offset issue when using fnRender() with bVisible parameter in the table table

A couple of new features for beta 3:

- New feature: State saving - remember filtering, sorting, pagination and length values after refresh
- New: Russian translation
- Added: Form submit example
- Added: Highlight rows and columns example
- Added: State saving demo
- Remove: Random test file

This is the latest and greatest version of DataTables, with the primary new feature being that DataTables is now non-destructive in it's manipulation of the DOM. Other new features include:

- Ajax auto loading of data
- Sorting column(s) highlighting
- Type detection for dynamic data (and plugin support)
- Speed - v1.4 is considerably faster (for most things!)

The new documentation and further information about this release can be found on the DataTables 1.4 home page.

Bug fix release:

- Bug fix: Data passed to fnRender() is slice()'ed in order that it can be modified and then drawn without effecting the original data
- Bug fix: fnRender() documentation updated
- Bug fix: Data inserted into the header can have html tags
- New: Single row select demo

Bug fix revision:

- Fix sInfoEmpty typo (was sInfoEmtpy)
- Compatibility with jQuery 1.3 (which thanks to Stefan Skopnik for this fix)

Minor feature (re-)addition:

- Support for sorting on a column which is not the column clicked on (e.g. possibly a hidden column) - iDataSort.

Bug fix release:

- Fix issue reported in plugins.jquery.com/node/5356 where the 'full_numbers' pagination will not all 'next' to go to last page
- Fix premature ending of example code due to an HTML character being shown
- Fix French translation (many thanks to Guillaume LO RE for providing the new translation).

Bug fix release of DataTables:

- Bug fix: Sorting terminates when a string which can be parsed as a date is encountered (including blank strings)
- Bug fix: When sorting is disabled the master data array wasn't copied to the working array
- Bug fix: DOM positioning was incorrectly looking at 'sDomPositioning' as an array (IE objects to this)
- Bug fix: Draw callback function wasn't being correctly cached in the settings object.

Big fix (and minor feature addition) release:

- New feature: fnDrawCallback() called (if defined) on each draw
- Bug fix: Column type defaults to 'string' when table is created as empty (data added later)
- Bug fix: Update the user selected rows demo

Bug fix release and new example:

- New example: User selectable rows ( http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/dataTables/example_select_row.html )
- Bug fix: Cope with numeric data when dynamically creating a new row

Bug fix release of DataTables:

- Bug fix: Don't override custom defined column types when dynamically creating a table. Example: http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/dataTables/example_dynamic_creation.html

Minor bug fix release:

- Bug fix: Internationalisation of the pagination strings wasn't being correctly handled.

Bug fix and minor refinements release of DataTables:

- Bug fix: Numerical (descending) sorting was broken in IE
- Bug fix: Processing element is now shown when sorting the table
- New: Date columns without a parse-able date are given the Unix epoch time (so the sort doesn't break)
- New: CSS refinement for the 'Processing' display element

A couple of minor bug fixes from the 1.3.0 release:

- Bug fix: CSS 'height' issue with the table and IE7
- Bug fix: HTML sorted (descending)
- Bug fix: Rows weren't being given the default class of 'odd/even'

DataTables 1.3!

• New: Multi-column sorting
• New: DOM positioning
• New: Single column filtering
• New: Alternative pagination styling
• New: Plugin support for pagination and sorting functions
• New: Access to internal settings
• Bugs fix: Number of fixes from the 1.2 branch

Please note that there as been small changed to the initialisation API - particularly the sorting mechanism in this release and this should be checked for integration problem before you deploy v1.3. Refer to the project page for full information about the DataTables initialisation and API functions.

Any problems - please let me know!

Bug fix release:

- Bug fix: Fix variable scoping issue when referencing table from different object

Bug fix release:

• Bug fix: Fix regression error introduced by 1.2.7 when creating a dynamic table

Bug fix release:

• Bug fix: Don't place sorting classes on columns which cannot be sorted (bSortable=false).

Bug fix release - with thanks to Torsten Irländer for his work on creating a patch for this release:

• Bug fix: Maintain classes from the 'thead th' elements when rendered

Bug fix release:

• Bug fix: Automatic type detection now takes place over all rows, rather than just the first one. This error was introduced in 1.2.4.

DataTables 1.2.4 sees:

• Bug fix: negative numbers added to numeric sorting auto-detection
• Bug fix: user set type not overruled, even if auto-detection would find a different type

Version 1.2.3 of DataTables sees the following:

• Added new data type for sorting - 'html'. This will strip HTML tags before sorting, so invisible characters (to the user) are not sorted upon.

• Add 'sDefaultSortDirection' initialisation parameter

Bug fix: Don't override the tfoot element if there is one present - just keep it as it is.

DataTables 1.2 includes:

• Support for multiple tables per page, and initialisation using standard jQuery syntax, $(.dataTable).dataTable() for example
• Addition of fnHeaderCallback() and dnFooterCallback() for dynamically updating the header and footer of the table
• Automatic class detection for the table column cells
• Full control of the table footer (now independent of the header)
• Bug fixes!

• Bug fix: Sorting after clearing filter fixed
• Bug fix: Filtering information with \n in
• Example change: Changed demo CSS to use classes

Veersion 1.1.2:

• Class names are assigned to the construction elements
• Added the API functions fnClearTable and fnAddData (one or multiple rows) - with thanks to Yekimov Denis for these!
• Multiple bug fixes

Fix bug when filtering the table.

Version 1.1 of the DataTables plugin includes:

• Support for creation of a table from pure Javascript (useful for optimisation, Adobe AIR etc)
• Full internationalisation support. Language information can be passed directly into the object initialiser, or loaded from a language file on a server
• The ability to attach and remove (open and close) a row to other rows already on display in the table have been added to the Javascript API (used, for example, for confirmation of deleting a record)
• Multiple bug fixes