datatable font awesome

by akshatha suchethan

HTML

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jszip/2.5.0/jszip.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/bpampuch/pdfmake/0.1.18/build/pdfmake.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/bpampuch/pdfmake/0.1.18/build/vfs_fonts.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.15/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.15/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.3.1/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.3.1/css/buttons.dataTables.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.3.1/js/buttons.print.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.3.1/js/buttons.html5.min.js"></script>
<table id="example" class="table table-striped">
        <thead>
             <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th> 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>
         ...

CSS

.custom-btn {
  cursor: pointer;
  margin-right: 5px;
}

JavaScript

$('#example').DataTable( {
  dom: 'Bfrtip',
  buttons: {
    //reset class and change the rendered tag 
    //from <button> to <i>
    dom: {
      button: {
        tag: 'i',
        className: ''
      }
    },
    //since we now have completely unstyled icons add
    //some space between them trough a .custom-btn class
    buttons: [
     {
       titleAttr: 'Download as PDF',
       extend: 'pdfHtml5',
       className: 'custom-btn fa fa-file-pdf-o',
       text: 'excel'
     },
     {
       titleAttr: 'Download as Excel',     
       extend: 'excelHtml5',
       className: 'custom-btn fa fa-file-excel-o',
       text: ''
     },
     {
       titleAttr: 'Download as CSV',     
       extend: 'csvHtml5',
       className: 'custom-btn fa fa-file-text-o',
       text: ''
     },
     {
       titleAttr: 'Print',     
       extend: 'print',
       className: 'custom-btn fa fa-print',
       text: ''
     },
     
    ]
  }    
});