Cannot reinitialise JQuery DataTable

Question

I\'m using jquery datatables to display data inside grid. On init page load script take DateTime.Today and process them further, problem is after init page load, when I\'m t

Answer 1

The DataTables API has changed, but this error is still thrown if you try to reinitialize the datatable again.

You can check if it is already created with:

$.fn.DataTable.isDataTable("#myTable")

And to destroy it so that it can be recreated again:

$('#myTable').DataTable().clear().destroy();

It is not the most efficient way, but it works. It should be possible to update the table without destroying it first, just using clear and row.add, but I haven't found a way of doing that when the data source is an array passed to the constructor.