Preamble

As well as providing a button toolbar, TableTools provides everything needed to have selectable rows in the table. Row selection is turned off by default in TableTools, but can be enabled using the sRowSelect parameter, set to either 'multi' or 'single'. When set the end user can select rows by simply clicking on them. TableTools provides a set of API methods and callbacks for controlling and monitoring the row selection in TableTools. There are also a number of pre-defined buttons to provide functions such as select-all and select-none, as shown in this example.

Live example

Initialisation code

$(document).ready( function () {
	$('#example').dataTable( {
		"sDom": 'T<"clear">lfrtip',
		"oTableTools": {
			"sRowSelect": "multi",
			"aButtons": [ "select_all", "select_none" ]
		}
	} );
} );

Other examples

• Basic initialisation
• Setting the SWF path
• Custom button arrangement
• Button text alteration
• Using button collections
• Using jQuery UI themes
• Styling with Twitter Bootstrap
• Multiple TableTools toolbars for a single table
• Multiple DataTables with a single initialisation
• User selectable rows (multiple rows)
• User selectable rows (single row)
• Alternative initialisation using 'new TableTools()'
• Altering the TableTools defaults
• TableTools plug-in buttons
• Customising the PDF output (adding text and orientation)