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HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.2/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.2/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>

<table id="table_id" class="display">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Column 1</th>
            <th>Column 2</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
             <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
                Row 1 Data 1</td>
            <td>Row 1 Data 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="toggler">toggle me</span>
  ...

JavaScript

$('#table_id').DataTable();
$('.toggler').on('click', function() {
   alert('toggled'); 
});

$('#table_id').on('click', '.toggler', function() {
alert('toggled');
});