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  1. POjQuery datatables don't show table if haven't data
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    copied!<p>I'm using jquery datatables with server side fetch data, my problem is when table of data is empty datatables hide table and don't show that, i want to show table with no any data on table message, how to have this option?</p> <pre><code>oTable_topics =$('#showTopics').dataTable({ "bLengthChange": false, "bStateSave": true, "iDisplayLength": 12, "bScrollCollapse": true, "bJQueryUI": true, "bAutoWidth": false, "sAjaxSource": "server_processing.php", "sPaginationType": "full_numbers", "bProcessing": true, // "fnCreatedRow": function( nRow, aData, iDataIndex ) { // $('td:eq(5)', nRow).html("&lt;ul class='styledlist' style='width:80px !important;'&gt;&lt;img src='http://localhost/shirazee/UI/images/icons/publish.png' style='border:none;'/&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;"); // }, "fnDrawCallback": function(oSettings) { clickRowHandler_topics(); if ( oSettings.aiDisplay.length == 0 ) { return; } var nTrs = $('tbody tr', oSettings.nTable); var iColspan = nTrs[0].getElementsByTagName('td').length; var sLastGroup = ""; for ( var i=0 ; i&lt;nTrs.length ; i++ ) { var iDisplayIndex = oSettings._iDisplayStart + i; var sGroup = oSettings.aoData[ oSettings.aiDisplay[iDisplayIndex] ]._aData[0]; if ( sGroup != sLastGroup ) { var nGroup = document.createElement( 'tr' ); var nCell = document.createElement( 'td' ); nCell.colSpan = iColspan; nCell.className = "group"; nCell.innerHTML = sGroup; nGroup.appendChild( nCell ); nTrs[i].parentNode.insertBefore( nGroup, nTrs[i] ); sLastGroup = sGroup; } } }, "aoColumnDefs": [ { "bVisible": false, "aTargets": [ 0 ] } ], "aaSortingFixed": [[ 0, 'asc' ]], "aaSorting": [[ 1, 'asc' ]], "fnServerParams": function ( aoData ) { aoData.push( {"name": "id" , "value": "i.id" }, {"name": "subject" , "value": "i.subject" }, {"name": "date_time", "value": "i.date_time"} , {"name": "posted_by", "value": "u.username"} , {"name": "ctitle" , "value": "c.title"} , {"name": "etitle" , "value": "e.title"}, {"name": "istatus" , "value": "i.status"}, {"name": "join" , "value": "JOIN categories c ON i.category = c.id JOIN status_topics e ON i.status = e.id JOIN users u ON i.posted_by = c.id"}, {"name": "action" , "value": "topics" } )} }); function clickRowHandler_topics() { $('#showTopics tbody tr').bind('click', function () { var aData = oTable_topics.fnGetData( this ); iId_topics = aData[1]; }); } </code></pre>
 

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