JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.2/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/colvis/1.1.1/js/dataTables.colVis.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/colvis/1.1.1/css/dataTables.colVis.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.2/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">

    

<button id="tst" > tst </button>

    <table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
 
    <tfoot>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </tfoot>
 
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
            <td>System Architect</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>61</td>
            <td>2011/04/25</td>
            <td>$320,800</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Garrett Winters</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>63</td>
            <td>2011/07/25</td>
            <td>$170,750</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Ashton Cox</td>
            <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td>66</td>
            <td>2009/01/12</td>
            <td>$86,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
            <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>22</td>
            <td>2012/03/29</td>
            <td>$433,060</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Airi Satou</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>33</td>
      ...

JavaScript

$('#tst').on( 'click',  function () 
         { 
             
            // works 
            var table = $('#example').dataTable();
            table.fnSetColumnVis( 2, false );
            $.fn.dataTable.ColVis.fnRebuild( table );

             
           //wont work !
           //var table = $('#example').DataTable();
           // table.column(2).visible(false);
           // $.fn.dataTable.ColVis.fnRebuild( table );
    
         }
      );
      
      

         var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
        "sDom": 'C<"clear">lfrtip'
         } );