How can I remove the search bar and footer added by the jQuery DataTables plugin?

Question

I am using jQuery DataTables.

I want to remove the search bar and footer (showing how many rows there are visible) that is added to the table by default. I just wan

Answer 1

As of DataTables 1.10.5 it is now possible to define initialisation options using HTML5 data-* attributes.

-dataTables documentation: HTML5 data-* attributes - table options

So you can specify data-searching="false" data-paging="false" data-info="false" on the table. For example, this table will not allow searching, apply paging, or show the information block:

        ...[ETC]...
    

    

        

            
Name
            
Avatar
            
Start date
            
Salary
        
    
    

        

            
Tiger Nixon
            

            
2011/04/25
            
$320,800
        
        

            
Garrett Winters
            

            
2011/07/25
            
$170,750
        

See a working example at https://jsfiddle.net/jhfrench/17v94f2s/.

The advantage to this approach is that it allows you to have a standard dataTables call (ie, $('table.apply_dataTables').DataTable()) while being able to configure the dataTables options table-by-table.