[SO] - Display jQuery DataTable after completely loading it

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51031357/display-jquery-datatable-after-completely-loading-it

by Muhammad Mushtaq Sheikh

HTML

<head>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/css/dataTables.bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/dataTables.bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>

<div id='hidden'>
    <table id="dataTable" class="table table-striped table-bordered" style="width:100%">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>First name</th>
                <th>Last name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
                <th>Extn.</th>
                <th>E-mail</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>Tiger</td>
                <td>Nixon</td>
                <td>System Architect</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>61</td>
                <td>2011/04/25</td>
                <td>$320,800</td>
                <td>5421</td>
                <td>[email protected]</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Garrett</td>
                <td>Winters</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
                <td>Tokyo</td>
                <td>63</td>
                <td>2011/07/25</td>
                <td>$170,750</td>
                <td>8422</td>
                <td>[email protected]</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ashton</td>
                <td>Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>66</td>
                <td>2009/01/12</td>
                <td>$86,000</td>
                <td>1562</td>
               ...

CSS

div.dataTables_wrapper {
        margin: 0 auto;
        height: 400px;
}

div#hidden {
  display: none;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#dataTable').DataTable( {
        "scrollY": '50vh',
        "scrollX": true
    } );
    $('#hidden').fadeIn();
    $('#dataTable').DataTable().columns.adjust().draw();
} );