DataTables dynamic language

Preamble

Changing the language information displayed by DataTables is as simple as passing in a language object to the dataTable constructor. The example above shows a different set of English language definitions to be used, rather than the defaults.

Live example

Rendering engineBrowserPlatform(s)Engine versionCSS grade
Rendering engineBrowserPlatform(s)Engine versionCSS grade
Gecko Firefox 1.0 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.7 A
Gecko Firefox 1.5 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Firefox 2.0 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Firefox 3.0 Win 2k+ / OSX.3+ 1.9 A
Gecko Camino 1.0 OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Camino 1.5 OSX.3+ 1.8 A
Gecko Netscape 7.2 Win 95+ / Mac OS 8.6-9.2 1.7 A
Gecko Netscape Browser 8 Win 98SE+ 1.7 A
Gecko Netscape Navigator 9 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Mozilla 1.0 Win 95+ / OSX.1+ 1 A
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Initialisation code

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$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').dataTable( {
        "oLanguage": {
            "sLengthMenu": "Display _MENU_ records per page",
            "sZeroRecords": "Nothing found - sorry",
            "sInfo": "Showing _START_ to _END_ of _TOTAL_ records",
            "sInfoEmpty": "Showing 0 to 0 of 0 records",
            "sInfoFiltered": "(filtered from _MAX_ total records)"
        }
    } );
} );

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