jQuery Datatables responsive example

by Eric L

HTML

<link href="//datatables.net/download/build/nightly/jquery.dataTables.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  
		<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
		<script src="//datatables.net/download/build/nightly/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.0.0/css/select.dataTables.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.0.0/js/dataTables.select.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/scroller/1.3.0/css/scroller.dataTables.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/scroller/1.3.0/js/dataTables.scroller.js"></script>
<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>
            ...

CSS

table th:nth-child(3), td:nth-child(3) {
  display: none;
}

JavaScript

function selectFn(){
  alert('select')
}
function deselectFn(){
  alert('deselect')
}
$(document).ready(function() {
    var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
                   responsive: true,
                   select: true
                } ); 
                
   table.on('select', selectFn) 
   table.on('deselect',deselectFn)
});