The DataTable component enables us to display tabular data in many flexible ways. It can be further enhanced with many features that allow our visitor to interact with the data: column sorting, cell editing, or element selection, with little or no help from the server.
A rich collection of events allow us to trigger additional actions. Mouse and keyboard events can be detected at any level: cell, cell content, row, or table and hooked via the built-in .onEventXxxx()
methods to perform several actions: cell, row, or column selection or highlighting or cell editing. Data arrival events can be hooked to add, replace, or update rows.
The DataTable uses the DataSource to fetch the data so it can reach any of the supported sources either local or remote and in several data formats.
For large sets of data, DataTable can break the data into pages so just a part of the whole set is shown at a time and, with help from the server, it can also fetch a page at a time, so in principle, it can handle...