JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<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>
<p id="result" style="height: 20px;">
</p>


<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>
                <td>$86,000</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
                <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>22</td>
                <td>2012/03/29</td>
                <td>$433,060</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Airi Satou</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
        ...

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
 var dtExample =   $('#example').DataTable({
                    retrieve: true,
                    "columns": [
                        { "name": "Name" },
                        { "name": "Position" },
                        { "name": "Office" },
                        { "name": "Age" },
                        { "name": "StartDate" },
                        { "name": "Salaryo" }
                    ]

                });
                
                
$("#result").append(JSON.stringify(  dtExample.row(5).data()));
        
          
          });