DataTables

DataTables Examples

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.0/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.9/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/rowreorder/1.0.0/js/dataTables.rowReorder.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.datatables.net/rowreorder/1.0.0/css/rowReorder.dataTables.css">
<button id="disable">
 disable (remove) events
</button>
<button id="enable">
 enable (restore) events
</button>

<table id="example">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Seq.</th>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
 
        <tfoot>
            <tr>
                <th>Seq.</th>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </tfoot>
 
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>2</td>
                <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
                <td>System Architect</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>2011/04/25</td>
                <td>$320,800</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>22</td>
                <td>Garrett Winters</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
                <td>Tokyo</td>
                <td>2011/07/25</td>
                <td>$170,750</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>6</td>
                <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>2009/01/12</td>
                <td>$86,000</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>41</td>
                <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
                <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>2012/03/29</td>
  ...

JavaScript

var events = []
var table = $('#example').DataTable({
  initComplete: function() {
    $.each($._data($('#example thead th')[0], 'events'), function(name, obj) {
      events[name] = obj[0]
    })
  }
})  

$("#disable").click(function() {
 $("#example thead th:nth-child(1)")
   .unbind()
   .bind('click', function() { 
    	alert('all listeners removed')
   })
})  

$("#enable").click(function() {
  var $th = $("#example thead th:nth-child(1)")
  $th.unbind()
  for (var name in events) {
    $th.bind(name, events[name])
  }
})