Datatables PDF messageTop

by mtilton

HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.20/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.6.1/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jszip/3.1.3/jszip.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdfmake/0.1.36/pdfmake.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdfmake/0.1.36/vfs_fonts.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.6.1/js/buttons.html5.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.3.1/js/buttons.print.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.15/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.3.1/css/buttons.dataTables.min.css">
<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>
          ...

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    var printCounter = 0;
 
    // Append a caption to the table before the DataTables initialisation
    $('#example').append('<caption style="caption-side: bottom">A fictional company\'s staff table.</caption>');
 
    $('#example').DataTable( {
        dom: 'Bfrtip',
        buttons: [
             {
                extend: 'pdfHtml5',
                messageTop: 'Message Text',
                  exportOptions: {
                     columns: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
                  },
                  customize : function(doc) {
                     doc.content[1].table.widths = [ '25%', '40%', '9%', '11%', '7%', '8%'];
                     doc.defaultStyle.fontSize = 8;
                  }
            }
        ]
    } );
} );