How can I prevent the jquery dataTable plugin from adding row and message when there is no data

Question

Our product owner would like the our empty tables to display just table header when there is no data in table. I can\'t seem to prevent dataTable from creating a row with \"

Answer 1

Old post, but for the sake of people using search engines looking for the right answer here is how I accomplished.

Delete or comment out the following line from the dataTables source:

anRows[iRowCount].appendChild(nTd);

In the minified version, search and delete:

b[i].appendChild(c);