JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Preservin

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/dt/jq-2.2.4/pdfmake-0.1.18/dt-1.10.13/b-1.2.4/b-colvis-1.2.4/b-html5-1.2.4/b-print-1.2.4/cr-1.3.2/fc-3.2.2/fh-3.1.2/r-2.1.0/sc-1.4.2/datatables.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/dt/jq-2.2.4/pdfmake-0.1.18/dt-1.10.13/b-1.2.4/b-colvis-1.2.4/b-html5-1.2.4/b-print-1.2.4/cr-1.3.2/fc-3.2.2/fh-3.1.2/r-2.1.0/sc-1.4.2/datatables.min.js"></script>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <button id="scrollto_Bruno">scrollto Bruno Nash</button>
      <button id="scrollto_Jenette">scrollto Jenette Caldwell</button>
      <table id="example" class="display nowrap" 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 id="1">
            <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
            <td>System Architect</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>61</td>
            <td>2011/04/25</td>
            <td>$3,120</td>
          </tr>
          <tr id="2">
            <td>Garrett Winters</td>
            <td>Director</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>63</td>
            <td>2011/07/25</td>
            <td>$5,300</td>
          </tr>
          <tr id="3">
            <td>Ashton Cox</td>
            <td>Technical Author</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td>66</td>
            <td>2009/01/12</td>
            <td>$4,800</td>
          </tr>
          <tr id="4">
            <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
            <td>Javascript Developer</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>22</td>
            <td>2012/03/29</td>
       ...

CSS

body {
  font: 90%/1.45em "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  color: #333;
  background-color: #fff;
}

#example tbody td {
  white-space: normal !important;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready( function () {
  var the_table = $('#example').DataTable({
    dom: 'frtip',
    scrollY: "200px",
    scroller: true,
    "sScrollX": false,
    "bAutoWidth": false,
    aaSorting : [[0, "asc"]],
    /*buttons: [
      'colvis' 
    ],*/
  });
  $('#scrollto_Bruno').click(function(){
    console.log('asd');
    the_table.row($('#example').find('#43')).scrollTo();
  });
  $('#scrollto_Jenette').click(function(){
    console.log('asd');
    the_table.row($('#example').find('#21')).scrollTo();
  });
  the_table.draw();
  the_table.on( 'order', function () {
    console.log( 'Table redrawn' );
} );
} );