Buttons for DataTables
The Buttons extension for DataTables provides a common set of options, API methods and styling to display buttons on a page that will interact with a DataTable. The core library provides the based framework upon which plug-ins can built.
There are four plug-ins that are part of the core Buttons software providing various utilities:
- HTML5 export buttons - Copy to clipboard, Save to Excel, CSV and PDF
- Print view
- Column visibility buttons
Other extensions for DataTables also provide buttons - Editor for example makes the create, edit and remove buttons available.
The examples presented here give an introduce to how Buttons can be used, the API and its various core plug-in buttons.
Basic initialisation
- Initialisation: Basic
- Initialisation: Top level `buttons` option
- Initialisation: instance
- Initialisation: Legacy `dom` option
- File export
- Custom button
- Class names
- Keyboard activation
- Collections
- Multi-level collections
- Auto close collection
- Plug-ins
- Multiple button groups
- Page length (button)
- Page length (select)
- Select integration - export selected rows
- Custom HTML in Buttons Collection
- Space between buttons
HTML 5 data export
- HTML5 export buttons
- Export titles and messages
- Complex table headers - all header rows
- Exclude footer in export
- Tab separated values
- Complex table headers - selected header rows
- File name
- Copy button internationalisation
- Column selectors
- Format output data - orthogonal data
- Format output data - export options
- Excel - auto filter
- Excel - Cell background
- Excel - Bold text
- Excel - Customise borders
- PDF - message
- PDF - page size and orientation
- PDF - image
- PDF - open in new window
- Custom file (JSON)