jquery Datatables plugin: custom message per page when table is empty

Question

I am using the DataTables plugin on multiple pages of my site and when no records are found I need it to display a different message on each page.

Right Now I use the below for the current message:

"oLanguage": {
        "sEmptyTable": "There is no data available for the week selected."
}

Is there some way to maybe put a conditional statement inside of oLanguage that checks for the current page? Something like:

if (currentPage == "thisPage")
    "sEmptyTable" : "There is no data on this current page"

Fizk · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12 17:23:16Z

2

I don't know if this trick works with Datatables, but you could try to pass the "sEmptyTable" as a function:

"oLanguage": {
    "sEmptyTable": function(){ return "There is no data"; }
}

See this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/tRTkd/ for a demo that sets the text of a button.

answered Feb 12, 2014 at 17:23

Fizk

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Worked great! Thanks! I just created the function, did the logic in the function, and called it from "sEmptyTable".