How to change results per page value in datatables

Question

Datatables has an option to select the number of records shown per page. The default value starts from 10, 25, 50 and 100. How can I change it to start from 5 instead of 10? 10

Answer 1

I realize that this question is old, but the accepted answer does not answer the OP's question.

The answer is to override the aLengthMenu option when initializing the dataTable. See here: http://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/length_menu.html