How to hide “Showing 1 of N Entries” with the dataTables.js library

Question

How do you remove the \"Showing 1 of N entries\" line of text on a dataTable (that is when using the javascript library dataTables? I think I was looking for something along

Answer 1

If you also need to disable the drop-down (not to hide the text) then set the lengthChange option to false

$('#datatable').dataTable( {
  "lengthChange": false
} );

Works for DataTables 1.10+

Read more in the official documentation